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SUBMITTER: Krasnow AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478117 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krasnow Anna M AM Ford Marc C MC Valdivia Leonardo E LE Wilson Stephen W SW Attwell David D
Nature neuroscience 20171211 1
How action potentials regulate myelination by oligodendrocytes is uncertain. We show that neuronal activity raises [Ca<sup>2+</sup>]<sub>i</sub> in developing oligodendrocytes in vivo and that myelin sheath elongation is promoted by a high frequency of [Ca<sup>2+</sup>]<sub>i</sub> transients and prevented by [Ca<sup>2+</sup>]<sub>i</sub> buffering. Sheath elongation occurs ~1 h after [Ca<sup>2+</sup>]<sub>i</sub> elevation. Sheath shortening is associated with a low frequency of [Ca<sup>2+</sup ...[more]