Cracking the Codes of Cortical Glial Progenitors:Evidence for the Common Lineage of Astrocytes and Oligodendrocytes

During the development of the central nervous system(CNS),neuroepithelial cells in the ventricular zone are multipotent stem cells that can generate neurons and macroglia(astrocytes or oligodendrocytes).It is generally thought that these progenitor cells sequentially produce neurons followed by glia.