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- From: gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: Myelination optic nerve
- Message-ID: <28524@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:15:18 GMT
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- jmartin@clark.edu (John Martin) writes:
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- >Since the optic nerve is an outgrowth of the diencephalon region of the
- >brain, is it myelinated by oligodendrocytes, as part of the CNS, or by
- >Schwann cells as peripheral nerves are?
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- >jmartin@clark.edu
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- During my (admittedly limited) study of neuroanatomy,I was told
- (several times) that the cell types in the first two cranial "nerves"
- (olfactory and optic) are typical of the CNS.
- The answer I would give is therefore, "oligodendrocytes."
-
- G.
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