Hypomyelinating

adj

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Adjective

1
That leads to hypomyelination not-comparable
"Interestingly, a very recent study demonstrated that impaired eIF2B activity specifically in oligodendrocytes during the active phase of myelination reproduces the characteristic features of VWMD in mice, including hypomyelinating phenotypes, premature death, foamy oligodendrocytes, and myelin loss (Lin et al., 2014b )."

Example

"Interestingly, a very recent study demonstrated that impaired eIF2B activity specifically in oligodendrocytes during the active phase of myelination reproduces the characteristic features of VWMD in mice, including hypomyelinating phenotypes, premature death, foamy oligodendrocytes, and myelin loss (Lin et al., 2014b )."

Etymology

From hypo- + myelinating.

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