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 ...

Research reveals how statins may protect brain cells and slow disease progression, offering hope for new treatment ...

Changes in the gene activity of immune cells may help flag people who have multiple sclerosis or are likely to develop it, a ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease in which the myelin sheath, an insulation that surrounds nerve cells, is slowly destroyed. | Genetics And Genomics ...

Clinical trials are about to begin for a spinal injury treatment using a "bridge" – made of stem cells from the patients’ own ...

The National MS Society has awarded $4.6 million in funding for five research projects aiming to help restore lost function ...

Scientists have found that 93% of the lipids in brain tissue are distributed differently in the white and gray matter, the subcortex, the visual and motor cortices, and the prefrontal cortex ...

The young woman had been seeing specialists about her symptoms for nearly her entire life. Eighteen years in, she got a ...

Myelin sheaths collapsed and the number of mitochondria was reduced in nerve fibers at 1,440 hours after implanting 29.6 MBq iodine-125 seeds. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

In an effort to promote research that would help fill this gap, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has dedicated $4.6 ...

“It would teach the immune system that the myelin basic protein is not a foreign substance,” says Catz. In 1997, the researchers launched a two-year, placebo-controlled phase 2 clinical trial ...

SetPoint plans to launch a trial of its implant device, stimulating the vagus nerve to promote myelin repair, next year in ...