Population Control: Cortical Interneurons Modulate Oligodendrogenesis

Pratiti Bandopadhayay; Charles D Stiles

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.032

Population Control: Cortical Interneurons Modulate Oligodendrogenesis

Neuron. 2017 May 3;94(3):415-417. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.032.

Authors

Pratiti Bandopadhayay¹, Charles D Stiles²

Affiliations

¹ Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
² Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: charles_stiles@dfci.harvard.edu.

PMID: 28472644
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.032

Abstract

During central nervous system development, oligodendrocytes must be formed in proportion to the number of neurons requiring their services. In this issue of Neuron, Voronova et al. (2017) show how cortical interneurons modulate oligodendrogenesis through a cytokine-mediated paracrine interaction.

MeSH terms

Interneurons*
Neurons
Oligodendroglia
Population Control*

Grants and funding

K99 CA201592/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States