Fibroblast growth factor signaling instructs ensheathing glia wrapping of Drosophila olfactory glomeruli

Fibroblast growth factor signaling instructs ensheathing glia wrapping of Drosophila olfactory glomeruli

The formation of complex but highly organized neural circuits requires interactions between neurons and glia. During the assembly of the Drosophila olfactory circuit, 50 olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) classes and 50 projection neuron (PN) classes form synaptic connections in 50 glomerular compartments in the antennal lobe, each of which represents a discrete olfactory information-processing ch...

Correction for Wu et al., Fibroblast growth factor signaling instructs ensheathing glia wrapping of Drosophila olfactory glomeruli.

NEUROSCIENCE Correction for “Fibroblast growth factor signaling instructs ensheathing glia wrapping of Drosophila olfactory glomeruli,” by Bing Wu, Jiefu Li, Ya-Hui Chou, David Luginbuhl, and Liqun Luo, which was first published July 3, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1706533114 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114:7505–7512). The authors note that an additional affiliation should be listed for Bing Wu. The new affi...

Olfactory ensheathing glia

Neural crest origin of olfactory ensheathing glia.

Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) are a unique class of glial cells with exceptional translational potential because of their ability to support axon regeneration in the central nervous system. Although OECs are similar in many ways to immature and nonmyelinating Schwann cells, and can myelinate large-diameter axons indistinguishably from myelination by Schwann cells, current dogma holds that ...

Olfactory ensheathing glia express aquaporin 1.

Olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) are distinct from other glia in their developmental origin, presence in both the peripheral and central nervous systems, and highly restricted location. OEG are present only in the olfactory lamina propria, olfactory nerve, and the outer two layers of the olfactory bulb, where they envelop bundles of olfactory sensory neuron axons in a manner distinct from myeli...