Term: telencephalon oligodendrocyte
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Name: telencephalon
Synonyms:
Definition: The anterior and dorsal forebrain neuromere. In ray-finned fishes and most pronounced in teleosts the roof plate of the embryonic telencephalon extends laterally with the effect that the paired alar plates forming the hemispheric walls roll out lateroventrally in a process called eversion. This is unlike the development in other vertebrate groups. From Neuroanatomy of the Zebrafish Brain.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000079]
Name: oligodendrocyte
Synonyms: oligodendroglia
Definition: A class of large neuroglial (macroglial) cells in the central nervous system. Form the insulating myelin sheath of axons in the central nervous system.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009076]