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 ...

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

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

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a long-term disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks the protective layer around nerve cells, known as the myelin sheath. The National Multiple Sclerosis ...

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

Damaging the protective lining, called the myelin sheath, that surrounds nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. When this lining becomes inflamed or destroyed, it slows down and disrupts the ...

"Neurodegenerative diseases that are associated with gradual myelin loss may also reflect this mechanism of metabolizing ...