Researchers have developed a novel microscopy imaging technique to assess damaged myelin across large areas of brain tissue, ...

What Is a Myelin Sheath? Myelin sheaths are sleeves of fatty tissue that protect your nerve cells. These cells are part of your central nervous system, which carries messages back and forth between ...

Scientists have discovered another molecule that plays an important role in regulating myelin formation in the central nervous system. Myelin promotes the conduction of nerve cell impulses by forming ...

In long-lived animals, renewed but thin myelin sheaths are enough to restore the impaired nervous system and can do so for years after the onset of disease, scientists have discovered. In the central ...

In the central nervous system of humans and all other mammals, a vital insulating sheath composed of lipids and proteins around nerve fibers helps speed the electrical signals or nerve impulses that ...

Chestnut Hill, Mass. (11/24/2009) – New findings from an international team of researchers probing the nerve-insulating myelin sheath were bolstered by the work of Boston College biologists, who used ...

How does our nervous system operate so quickly and efficiently? The answer lies in a membranous structure called myelin. Aa Aa Aa All our activities — eating, walking, talking — are controlled by our ...

Schwann cells are a type of glial cells of the peripheral nervous system that help form the myelin sheath around the nerve fibers. Schwann cells are derived from the neural crest and play crucial ...

T reg cells are required for efficient oligodendrocyte progenitor cell differentiation during remyelination in vivo. Figure 1: T reg are required for efficient OPC differentiation and remyelination in ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious neurological disease that usually causes permanent disability. Approximately 2.9 million people are affected worldwide, 240,000 in Germany alone. The exact cause ...

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often disabling, neurological disease that affects the central nervous system (the brain, optic nerves and the spinal cord). The disease most commonly causes relapses, ...

Talk about using your head. In a recent — though yet-to-be-peer-reviewed — paper, scientists posit that marathon runners’ bodies might turn to brain tissue as a mid-race energy source, gobbling down ...