OLIGODENDROCYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oligodendrocyte mean? 

• OLIGODENDROCYTE (noun)
  The noun OLIGODENDROCYTE has 1 sense:

1. a cell of the oligodendroglia

  Familiarity information: OLIGODENDROCYTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLIGODENDROCYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell of the oligodendroglia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("oligodendrocyte" is a kind of...):

glial cell; neurogliacyte; neuroglial cell (a cell of the neuroglia)

Holonyms ("oligodendrocyte" is a part of...):

oligodendria; oligodendroglia (tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers)

 Context examples 

Neoplasms composed of neuroepithelial cells, which have the capacity to differentiate into NEURONS, oligodendrocytes, and ASTROCYTES.

(Neuroepithelial Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A sulfated galactosylceramide that is a differentiation marker on the surface of oligodendrocyte precursors in the central nervous system.

(Oligodendrocyte Marker O4, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm of the central nervous system arising from oligodendrocytes, for which the malignancy status has not been determined.

(Oligodendroglioma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This allele, which encodes oligodendrocyte transcription factor 2 protein, is involved in neuronal progenitor cell fate determination.

(OLIG2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Tumors that arise from oligodendrocytes are called oligodendroglial tumors.

(Neuroglial Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A brain tumor that forms from more than one type of brain cell, usually astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.

(Mixed glioma, NCI Dictionary)

Oligodendrocyte transcription factor 2 protein (323 aa, ~32 kDa) is encoded by the human OLIG2 gene.

(Oligodendrocyte Transcription Factor 2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare, slow-growing tumor that begins in oligodendrocytes (cells that cover and protect nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord).

(Oligodendroglial tumor, NCI Dictionary)

Adult brains contain oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs), which are stem cells that generate myelin-producing cells.

(Drugs that activate brain stem cells may reverse multiple sclerosis, NIH)

Cell-cell adhesions also underpin axon-axon contacts and link neurons with supporting schwann cells and oligodendrocytes.

(Cell Adhesion Molecule Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)