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hypomyelinating

hypomyelinating adjective: that leads to hypomyelination.

Adjective

hypomyelinating (not comparable)

  1. That leads to hypomyelination
    • 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...2015 July 29, Sarrabeth Stone, Wensheng Lin, “The unfolded protein response in multiple sclerosis”, in Frontiers in Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI

Origin of hypomyelinating

From hypo- + myelinating.

Questions about hypomyelinating

What does hypomyelinating mean?
Hypomyelinating means that leads to hypomyelination.
What part of speech is hypomyelinating?
Hypomyelinating is an adjective.

Words near hypomyelinating in the dictionary

  1. hypomutation
  2. hypomutations
  3. hypomutator
  4. hypomutators
  5. hypomyelinated
  6. hypomyelinating
  7. hypomyelination
  8. hypomyelinations
  9. hypomyelinization
  10. hypomyelinogenesis
  11. hypomyelinosis

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