Oligodendrocytes, Composition & Function

Abstract

Oligodendrocytes (from Greek 'cells with many branches'), or oligodendroglia, are a type of neuroglia whose fundamental capacities are to supply back and cover to axons within the central anxious framework of a few vertebrates, proportionate to the work performed by Schwann cells within the fringe anxious framework. Oligodendrocytes do this by making the myelin sheath. A single oligodendrocyte can amplify its forms to 50 axons, wrapping roughly 1 μm of myelin sheath around each axon; Schwann cells, on the other hand, can wrap around as it were one axon. Each oligodendrocyte shapes one fragment of myelin for a few adjoining axons. Oligodendrocytes were These