. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 5.

Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Neurosci. 2012 Dec;13(12):819–831. doi: 10.1038/nrn3386

Table 1.

Developmental and postnatal expression of Olig genes

	Olig1	Olig2	Olig3	References
Developmental
Ventral spinal cord (pMN domain)	++	+++	−	^{14, 15}
Dorsal spinal cord	−	−	+++	^{42, 123}
Early oligodendrocyte progenitors	+++	+++	−	^{14, 15}
Postnatal
SVZ transit-amplifying cells	+++	+++	NT	²²
NG2-positive glia	+++	+++	NT	¹²⁴
Myelinating oligodendrocytes	+++	+++	NT	^{14, 15}
External to CNS	−	−	++	¹⁶

Expression levels (arbitrary units) ranging from no expression (−) to strong expression (+++). NT not tested.