... respond to central nervous system (CNS) injury by a process known as astrogliosis, which involves morphological changes, including cell body hypertrophy and thickening of major processes. Following severe injury, astrocytes exhibit drastically reduced morphological complexity and collectively form a glial...

... differentiation and may ultimately regulate myelination. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 6 10 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 Cdk5 Paxillin Ser phosphorylation Differentiation Oligodendrocyte precursor cells CNS Oligodendrocytes...

... 94305, USA § Present address: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK 22 3 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 Integrins Neural progenitors Neurospheres CNS During the development of the central nervous system (CNS...

... into the three main cell types of the central nervous system (CNS), that is, astrocytes, neurons and oligodendrocytes. To study the possible role of connexins and junctional communication during differentiation of neural progenitors, we assessed cell-to-cell communication by microinjecting Lucifer Yellow...

...Ellen J. Collarini; Nigel Pringle; Hardeep Mudhar; Georgina Stevens; Rainer Kuhn; Edwin S. Monuki; Greg Lemke; William D. Richardson ABSTRACT O-2A progenitor cells, the precursors of oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS), probably originate in the subventricular germinal zones...