A first healthy adults group has been dosed in an early clinical trial of an oral and myelin-protective treatment for all ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

A technology aims to be a "wearable" device for neurons, wrapping around individual nerve fibers to better study and treat ...

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 ...

Research suggests that omega-3s can support brain health, especially for people who carry a gene that raises the risk of ...

Based on the findings previously collected by Bellen and other researchers, Nave and his colleagues hypothesized that myelin, ...

The GlialCAM protein is expressed in glial cells, helping to produce the insulating myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells. Determining why EBV infection leads to MS in some people is a challenge ...

Myelin is the protective sheath covering each nerve cell's axon—the threadlike portion of a cell that transmits electrical signals between cells. Damage to myelin is associated with MS ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating disease of the brain and spinal cord that impacts millions worldwide.