OPCs on a Diet: A Youthful Serving of Remyelination.

Cell Metab

Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address:

Published: December 2019

Remyelination declines in the aging central nervous system due to oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC) dysfunction. In the latest issue of Cell Stem Cell, Neumann et al. (2019) demonstrate that aged OPCs are amenable to functional rejuvenation by systemic interventions involving alternate-day fasting or treatment with the fasting mimetic metformin.

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