The Myelin Sheath: Shape, Size ... leaving axons and even the entire neuron vulnerable to degeneration. Thus, patients with demyelinating diseases suffer from various neurological symptoms.

Fibrobiologics' cell therapy CYMS101 significantly increased myelin production and promoted myelin repair in a mouse model of ...

A recent study reveals that the human brain, when lacking energy, might draw from its own fatty tissues. This discovery ...

Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions between ... As the voltage increases along the axon, additional sodium channels open, propagating the signal. The myelin sheath made of protein ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that ... this process causes neuron damage.

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and down the body. Tiny branches (dendrons) which branch further as dendrites at each ...