The Myelin Sheath: Shape, Size ... The importance of myelin is underscored by the presence of various diseases in which the primary problem is defective myelination. Demyelination is the condition ...

not only in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, in which the immune system attacks oligodendrocytes and damages the myelin sheath, but also in Alzheimer’s disease where reduced levels of myelin ...

Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which your immune ... damages the protective coating surrounding nerve cells (myelin sheath) in your central nervous system. Damage to the myelin sheath ...

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.

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

the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Chronic loss of the protective myelin harms neurons.

Hospitalization for severe COVID-19 more than doubles risk of MS, according to a study involving nearly 10 million people in ...

No one knows exactly what causes MS, but like other autoimmune diseases, the body's immune system attacks its own cells by mistake... Damaging the protective lining, called the myelin sheath ...

Specifically, kids whose genes already put them at higher risk of developing MS later in life, and who were also exposed to ...