2020/10/12
Nagoya City University
Keio University School of Medicine
A research group led by Professor Mitsuharu Hattori of the Department of Pathobiochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University; Professor Mineyoshi Aoyama of the Department of Pathophysiology; and Professor Kazunori Nakajima of the Department of Anatomy, Keio University School of Medicine, has discovered a new molecular mechanism that controls the number and location of oligodendrocyte precursor cells, a type of glial cell essential for efficient neural conduction in the brain. These findings were published on September 30 (October 1, Japan time) in the Journal of Neuroscience, a journal published by the Society for Neuroscience, as an original article with lead author Himari Ogino, who was a student in the Doctoral Programs at the Graduate School of Nagoya City University and a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at the time.
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