MYELINATION OF THE MOUSE CORPUS CALLOSUM
- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
- Vol. 6 (6), 415-420
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2990.1980.tb00219.x
Abstract
Myelination has been studied in th corpus callosum of the mouse brain between birth and 240 days-of-age. Myelin sheaths were first seen at 11 days. The most rapid phase of myelination occurred between 14 and 45 days when 13.5% of axons were myelinated, but myelination continued at a reduced rate up to 240 days when 28% of axons were myelinated. The mean diameter of unmyelinated axons was more or less constant throughout the study with an overall mean diameter of 0.25 +/- 0.01 micron. Similarly myelinated axon diameter showed little variation with age with a mean diameter of 0.46 +/- 0.01 micron. This suggests that in the corpus callosum axons do not increase in size until they begin to myelinate.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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