Much like the insulation around the wires in electrical systems, glial cells form a membraneous sheath surrounding axons called myelin, thereby insulating the axon. This myelination, as it is ...

Oligodendrocytes are the glial cells that form myelin sheaths around nerve fibers, which allow rapid and efficient transmission of electrical impulses. There is growing evidence that ...

Scientists say that blocking a protein called DLK could help protect against neurodegeneration of demyelinated nerve cells in ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

The brains of mammals expend a significant amount of energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate ... of metabolizing fatty ...

Scientists will use $1 million from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to explore ways to stop astrocytes from damaging ...

Patients lacking laminins have abnormally thick and instable myelin, short internodes and immature nodes of Ranvier. We first determined that laminin 211, dystroglycan and certain integrins are ...

Myelin is the protective sheath covering each nerve cell’s axon ... Damage to myelin is associated with MS, stroke, brain injuries and certain forms of dementia. In addition, delay in ...