In contrast, among the myelinated nerve fibers, axons are mostly covered by myelin sheaths, and transmembrane currents can only occur at the nodes of Ranvier where the axonal membrane is exposed.

Cancer cells can break down the protective covers around nerves, causing nerve injury that triggers chronic inflammation, ...

Myelin refers to the protective membrane that surrounds the axon—a long fiber-like projection of a nerve cell. The myelin sheath, mainly composed of lipids or other organic compounds, functions ...

Myelin refers to the protective membrane that surrounds the axon—a long fiber-like projection of a nerve cell. The myelin sheath, mainly composed of lipids or other organic compounds, functions ...

Bin Liu, Wang Xin, Jian-Rong Tan, Rui-Ping Zhu, Ting Li, Dan Wang, Sha-Sha Kan, Ding-Kui Xiong, Huan-Huan Li, Meng-Meng Zhang, Huan-Huan Sun, William Wagstaff, Chan Zhou, Zhi-Jian Wang, Yao-Guang ...

Myelin promotes the conduction of nerve cell impulses by forming a sheath around their projections, the so-called axons, at specific locations -- acting like the plastic insulation around a power ...

The paper K.M. Young et al., “Oligodendrocyte dynamics in the healthy adult CNS: evidence for myelin remodeling,” Neuron, 77:873-85, 2013. The problem Oligodendrocytes (OLs) produce the myelin sheaths ...

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 ...

A new international study led by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, the Karolinska Institutet and the University of Texas ...