The Myelin Sheath: Shape, Size ... a better understanding of myelin biology and pathology is absolutely required. How do we structure a research effort to elucidate the mechanisms involved ...

A team of neurologists, neuroradiologists and biomaterials specialists affiliated with several institutions in Spain has ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that ... and better mimic the pathology seen in human ...

Myelin biology and repair refers to the science of myelin physiology, manufacture, and how myelin damage in either the peripheral or central nervous systems can be repaired. Myelin – produced by ...

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 ...