Much like the insulation around the wires in electrical systems, glial cells form a membraneous sheath surrounding axons called myelin ... axons and even the entire neuron vulnerable to degeneration.

1 Motor Neurons A motor neuron’s cell body is also often located either in ... triggered by signals from dendrites, and myelin sheaths surrounding the axon that accelerate action potential propagation ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin ... model and discovered this link between the protein pathway and neuron ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and down the body. Tiny branches (dendrons) which branch further as dendrites at each ...