Schwann cells make myelin in the peripheral nervous system (PNS: nerves) and oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS: brain and spinal cord). In the PNS, one Schwann cell forms a ...

Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have discovered new potential therapeutic targets for ...

Unlike other organs that have fat cells, neurons and other cells in the central nervous system (CNS ... paper was a very speculative idea that myelin may have evolved as a highly specialized ...

Marathon running causes a temporary decline in brain myelin content, but levels return to normal within two months. This ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disorder characterized by damage in the central nervous system, where myelin is damaged in a patchy pattern, sometimes causing nerve damage and scar ...

Quantum is partnering with Massachusetts General Hospital on a clinical study to test a PET tracer for monitoring response to ...

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

The nervous system is broadly divided into two sections: the central nervous system (CNS ... triggered by signals from dendrites, and myelin sheaths surrounding the axon that accelerate action ...

Our current research interests are focused on the structure and dynamic membrane interactions in abnormal nerve myelin, in which alterations ... macromolecular and tissue levels in the nervous system, ...

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