Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Myelinosome formation represents an early stage of oligodendrocyte damage in multiple sclerosis and its animal model

  • Elisa Romanelli,
  • Doron Merkler,
  • Aleksandra Mezydlo,
  • Marie-Theres Weil,
  • Martin S. Weber,
  • Ivana Nikić,
  • Stephanie Potz,
  • Edgar Meinl,
  • Florian E. H. Matznick,
  • Mario Kreutzfeldt,
  • Alexander Ghanem,
  • Karl-Klaus Conzelmann,
  • Imke Metz,
  • Wolfgang Brück,
  • Matthew Routh,
  • Mikael Simons,
  • Derron Bishop,
  • Thomas Misgeld,
  • Martin Kerschensteiner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13275
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Oligodendrocyte damage is a key component of demyelinating diseases. Here, the authors use in vivolight and correlated electron microscopy in EAE mouse models, and find early damage occurs at the myelin sheath before spreading to the oligodendrocyte cell body.