Definition of "oligodendroglia" [oligodendroglia]

• Neuroglia consisting of cells similar to but smaller than astrocytes, found in the central nervous system and associated with the formation of myelin. (noun)

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• "In 1985 Dr. Marian Diamond of UC Berkeley and Scheibel found that Einstein's brain had four times more "oligodendroglia" - helper cells that speed neural communication-than the brains of 11 gifted people she also studied."
• "In this area Einstein possessed a significantly greater number of both astrocytes and oligodendroglia (oligodendrocytes) glial cells."
• "These findings describe T-IhNSCs as a stable, fast-growing multipotent human NSC line cell, with an enhanced ability to generate neuronal and oligodendroglia cells which, in a way heretofore unprecedented, preserve a behaviour strictly reminiscent of wild-type hNSCs."