ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2021
Evolutionary Origins of the Oligodendrocyte Cell Type and Adaptive Myelination.
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- SOX10 Overexpression Enhances the Oligodendrocyte Lineage Commitment of iOPCs In Vitro by Reshaping Their Chromatin Binding Landscape.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Are Oligodendrocytes the Culprits or Victims in Alzheimer's Disease.Physiological research · 2025Review
- Domain-Shuffling in the Evolution of Cyclostomes and Gnathostomes.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2025Article
- Evolution of Oligodendroglia and Myelin.Advances in neurobiology · 2025Review
- Evolution of tissue-specific expression of ancestral genes across vertebrates and insects.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Recognizing Alzheimer's disease from perspective of oligodendrocytes: Phenomena or pathogenesis?CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Review
- Oligodendrocyte origin and development in the zebrafish visual system.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2023Article
- Remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis: Findings in the Cuprizone Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Oligodendrocytes are multifunctional central nervous system (CNS) glia that are essential for neural function in gnathostomes. The evolutionary origins and specializations of the oligodendrocyte cell type are among the many remaining mysteries in glial biology and neuroscience. The role of oligodendrocytes as CNS myelinating glia is well established, but recent studies demonstrate that oligodendrocytes also participate in several myelin-independent aspects of CNS development, function, and maintenance. Furthermore, many recent studies have collectively advanced our understanding of myelin plasticity, and it is now clear that experience-dependent adaptations to myelination are an additional form of neural plasticity. These observations beg the questions of when and for which functions the ancestral oligodendrocyte cell type emerged, when primitive oligodendrocytes evolved new functionalities, and the genetic changes responsible for these evolutionary innovations. Here, I review recent findings and propose working models addressing the origins and evolution of the oligodendrocyte cell type and adaptive myelination. The core gene regulatory network (GRN) specifying the oligodendrocyte cell type is also reviewed as a means to probe the existence of oligodendrocytes in basal vertebrates and chordate invertebrates.
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