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Dev Neurobiol ; 78(2): 93-107, 2018 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28941015

ABSTRACT

The CNS is extremely responsive to an ever-changing environment. Studies of neural circuit plasticity focus almost exclusively on functional and structural changes of neuronal synapses. In recent years, however, myelin plasticity has emerged as a potential modulator of neuronal networks. Myelination of previously unmyelinated axons and changes in the structure of myelin on already-myelinated axons (similar to changes in internode number and length or myelin thickness or geometry of the nodal area) can in theory have significant effects on the function of neuronal networks. In this article, the authors review the current evidence for myelin changes occurring in the adult CNS, highlight some potential underlying mechanisms of how neuronal activity may regulate myelin changes, and explore the similarities between neuronal and myelin plasticity. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 78: 93-107, 2018.


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Myelin Sheath/physiology , Neuronal Plasticity/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Animals , Central Nervous System/growth & development , Central Nervous System/physiology , Cynara/physiology , Humans
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PLoS Biol ; 11(12): e1001743, 2013 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24391468

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Myelination is essential for rapid impulse conduction in the CNS, but what determines whether an individual axon becomes myelinated remains unknown. Here we show, using a myelinating coculture system, that there are two distinct modes of myelination, one that is independent of neuronal activity and glutamate release and another that depends on neuronal action potentials releasing glutamate to activate NMDA receptors on oligodendrocyte lineage cells. Neuregulin switches oligodendrocytes from the activity-independent to the activity-dependent mode of myelination by increasing NMDA receptor currents in oligodendrocyte lineage cells 6-fold. With neuregulin present myelination is accelerated and increased, and NMDA receptor block reduces myelination to far below its level without neuregulin. Thus, a neuregulin-controlled switch enhances the myelination of active axons. In vivo, we demonstrate that remyelination after white matter damage is NMDA receptor-dependent. These data resolve controversies over the signalling regulating myelination and suggest novel roles for neuregulin in schizophrenia and in remyelination after white matter damage.


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Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/physiology , Myelin Sheath/physiology , Neuregulins/physiology , Oligodendroglia/physiology , Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/physiology , Action Potentials/physiology , Animals , Coculture Techniques/methods , Female , Neuregulin-1/physiology , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Signal Transduction/physiology
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