How does our nervous system operate so quickly and efficiently? The answer lies in a membranous structure called myelin. Aa Aa Aa All our activities — eating, walking, talking — are controlled ...

Toluidine blue staining. Myelin is stained in blue. The nerve tract is filled with ring-shaped structures, indicating a transverse section of myelinated nerve fibers. (D) Electron microscopy of a ...

The POC Myelin cycle helmet is a new arrival and, if you’ve always tutted about having to don protective head gear when on two wheels, it might make you think again. What we’ve got here is ...

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 ...