Oligodendrocyte lineage gene 1 (Olig1) plays a key role in hypoxic-ischemic brain damage and myelin repair.

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After miRNA-9 transfection, noticeable green fluorescence (plasmid with GFP gene, arrow) was found in brain tissue from neonatal rats undergoing oxygen-glucose deprivation.
Credit: Neural Regeneration Research

miRNA-9 is involved in the occurrence of many related neurological disorders.

Bioinformatics analysis demonstrated that miRNA-9 complementarily, but incompletely, bound oligodendrocyte lineage gene 1, but whether miRNA-9 regulates oligodendrocyte lineage gene 1 remains poorly understood.

Dr. Lijun Yang and co-workers from Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University in China prepared whole brain slices from a rat model of oxygen-glucose deprivation and explored dynamic expression pattern of Olig1 during hypoxic-ischemic brain damage and after miRNA-9 transfection.

Results from their study showed that miRNA-9 possibly negatively regulated oligodendrocyte lineage gene 1 in brain tissues during hypoxic-ischemic brain damage.

The relevant study has been reported in Neural Regeneration Research.

Article: " Negative regulation of miRNA-9 on oligodendrocyte lineage gene 1 during hypoxic-ischemic brain damage," by Lijun Yang, Hong Cui, Ting Cao (Department of Pediatrics, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China)

Yang LJ, Cui H, Cao T. Negative regulation of miRNA-9 on oligodendrocyte lineage gene 1 during hypoxic-ischemic brain damage. Neural Regen Res. 2014;9(5):513-518.