Oligodendrocyte Physiology and Pathology Function

Markus Kipp^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical Center, Gertrudenstrasse 9, 18057 Rostock, Germany.
² Center for Transdisciplinary Neurosciences Rostock (CTNR), Rostock University Medical Center, Gelsheimer Strasse 20, 18147 Rostock, Germany.

Editorial

Markus Kipp. Cells. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 11;9(9):2078.

doi: 10.3390/cells9092078.

Markus Kipp^{1

2}

¹ Institute of Anatomy, Rostock University Medical Center, Gertrudenstrasse 9, 18057 Rostock, Germany.
² Center for Transdisciplinary Neurosciences Rostock (CTNR), Rostock University Medical Center, Gelsheimer Strasse 20, 18147 Rostock, Germany.

Abstract

The adult vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) mainly consists of neurons, astrocytes, microglia cells and oligodendrocytes [...].

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