Myelin repair normally occurs spontaneously, but in multiple sclerosis and other disorders of the central nervous system, the myelin repair process occurs very slowly or fails altogether.

and oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS: brain and spinal cord). In the PNS, one Schwann cell forms a single myelin sheath (Figure 1A). By contrast, in the CNS, the oligodendrocyte ...

Unlike other organs that have fat cells, neurons and other cells in the central nervous system ... of metabolizing fatty ...

The Carl Zeiss Foundation is contributing EUR 6 million to a research project on the regeneration of the nervous system at ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system that occurs when the immune system attacks the ...

The research is published in the journal Science. Most nerve fibers in vertebrates are encased in sheaths made largely of ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they ... These move towards the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS is the brain and spinal cord.

and a protein of the central nervous system (CNS) called GlialCAM 3. The GlialCAM protein is expressed in glial cells, helping to produce the insulating myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells.

They have some features in common: A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long ... to co-ordinators such as the central nervous system or CNS.