New research reveals that Alzheimer's disease may impair nerve function not by reducing myelin, but by altering the proteins ...

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 ...

The molecular mechanisms underlying myelin sheath destruction in multiple sclerosis lesions remain unresolved. With immunogold–labeled peptides of myelin antigens and high–resolution ...

Myelin is a fatty tissue found in our body's nervous system, coating our brain and nerve fibers in an extensive casing of insulating plasma known as the myelin sheath.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a heterogeneous, immune-mediated disorder in which the body attacks its own myelin sheath that protects the nerve fibers of the central nervous system (CNS).