The oligodendrocyte lineage cells include oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) and oligodendrocytes (OLs). OPCs are the precursor cells of OLs in the central nervous system (CNS). During development, OPCs terminally differentiate and mature into myelinated OLs (Guo et al., 2018;Micu et al., 2018). OPCs are distributed throughout the CNS and are characterized by the high expression of PDGFRα and NG2 on such cells (Dawson et al., 2003;Sim et al., 2011). The primary function of OPCs is to differentiate into mature myelin-producing
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