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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 30, Issue 14, Pages 4970-4980Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3456-09.2010
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Developing neural tissue undergoes a period of neurogenesis followed by a period of gliogenesis. The lineage relationships among glial cell types have not been defined for most areas of the nervous system. Here we use retroviruses to label clones of glial cells in the chick retina. We found that almost every clone had both astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. In addition, we discovered a novel glial cell type, with features intermediate between those of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, which we have named the diacyte. Diacytes also share a progenitor cell with both astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.
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