Dying Oligodendrocyte (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Dying Oligodendrocyte

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A living-tissue model developed by Dartmouth researchers showed that a fatal trauma killed younger oligodendrocytes (blue) within 24 hours, while mature cells (yellow) took 45 days to die.

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Robert Hill

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