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 ...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have discovered a human antibody which when injected as a single dose to laboratory mouse models was able to repair myelin. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have ...

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

The thicker this myelin sheath, the faster the transmission. "Even though myelination is an integral part of neural processing in vertebrate brains, its adaptive properties have not yet been ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, led by Dr. Shigeki Watanabe, have found that axons aren’t the smooth, cylindrical ...

For children genetically predisposed to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), exposure to cigarette smoke in the family home could ...