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ArticleISRN neurology2012

Polarization and myelination in myelinating glia.

Toshihiro Masaki

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Article in ISRN neurology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Schwann Cell Development and Myelination.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024
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  4. WWOX Loss of Function in Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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  7. Influence of Mechanical Stimuli on Schwann Cell Biology.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2017
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  10. The Polarity Protein Pals1 Regulates Radial Sorting of Axons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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  11. Schwann cell myelination.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2015
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  16. Genetic deletion of Cadm4 results in myelin abnormalities resembling Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013
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Toshihiro MasakiDepartment of Medical Science, Teikyo University of Science, 2-2-1 Senju-Sakuragi, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 120-0045, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myelinating glia, oligodendrocytes in central nervous system and Schwann cells in peripheral nervous system, form myelin sheath, a multilayered membrane system around axons enabling salutatory nerve impulse conduction and maintaining axonal integrity. Myelin sheath is a polarized structure localized in the axonal side and therefore is supposed to be formed based on the preceding polarization of myelinating glia. Thus, myelination process is closely associated with polarization of myelinating glia. However, cell polarization has been less extensively studied in myelinating glia than other cell types such as epithelial cells. The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide insights for the field of myelination research by applying the information obtained in polarity study in other cell types, especially epithelial cells, to cell polarization of myelinating glia. Thus, in this paper, the main aspects of cell polarization study in general are summarized. Then, they will be compared with polarization in oligodendrocytes. Finally, the achievements obtained in polarization study for epithelial cells, oligodendrocytes, and other types of cells will be translated into polarization/myelination process by Schwann cells. Then, based on this model, the perspectives in the study of Schwann cell polarization/myelination will be discussed.

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PMCPMC3544266

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