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ArticleeLife2023

Oligodendrocyte-mediated myelin plasticity and its role in neural synchronization.

Sinisa Pajevic, Dietmar Plenz, Peter J Basser, R Douglas Fields

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Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sinisa PajevicSection on Critical Brain Dynamics, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8880-3320
Dietmar PlenzSection on Critical Brain Dynamics, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0008-3657
Peter J BasserSection on Quantitative Imaging and Tissue Sciences, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4795-6088
R Douglas FieldsNervous System Development and Plasticity Section, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, United States.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · US

Funding

Neuronal Avalanches in the NeocortexZIAMH002797 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI PLENZ, DIETMAR · 2009 to 2025
$32.3M
Nervous System Development and PlasticityZIAHD000713 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI FIELDS, RICHARD DOUGLAS · 2009 to 2023
$17.7M
Transport Processes and Nervous System FunctionZIAHD008972 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BASSER, PETER J. · 2018 to 2025
$5.9M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD000713Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD008972Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002797
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Temporal synchrony of signals arriving from different neurons or brain regions is essential for proper neural processing. Nevertheless, it is not well understood how such synchrony is achieved and maintained in a complex network of time-delayed neural interactions. Myelin plasticity, accomplished by oligodendrocytes (OLs), has been suggested as an efficient mechanism for controlling timing in brain communications through adaptive changes of axonal conduction velocity and consequently conduction time delays, or latencies; however, local rules and feedback mechanisms that OLs use to achieve synchronization are not known. We propose a mathematical model of oligodendrocyte-mediated myelin plasticity (OMP) in which OLs play an active role in providing such feedback. This is achieved without using arrival times at the synapse or modulatory signaling from astrocytes; instead, it relies on the presence of global and transient OL responses to local action potentials in the axons they myelinate. While inspired by OL morphology, we provide the theoretical underpinnings that motivated the model and explore its performance for a wide range of its parameters. Our results indicate that when the characteristic time of OL's transient intracellular responses to neural spikes is between 10 and 40 ms and the firing rates in individual axons are relatively low (10 Hz), the OMP model efficiently synchronizes correlated and time-locked signals while latencies in axons carrying independent signals are unaffected. This suggests a novel form of selective synchronization in the CNS in which oligodendrocytes play an active role by modulating the conduction delays of correlated spike trains as they traverse to their targets.

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AxonsMyelin SheathBrainNeuronsOligodendrogliamodelingmyelin plasticityneural synchronizationneurosciencenoneoligodendrocyte

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PMID36976252
PMCPMC10132807
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