Myelin, the protective sheath around nerve fibers, plays a crucial role in brain communication. It ensures fast and efficient ...

Myrobalan's experimental therapy MRO-002 is a GPR17 antagonist that's made to promote myelin repair in people with MS and ...

Old age and neurodegenerative diseases like MS damage oligodendrocytes. When the cells die, their myelin production perishes ...

Damage from demyelination can develop in the ... the progression of MS. MS causes the immune system to attack the myelin sheath that surrounds nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

COVID-19 often causes long-term neurological symptoms, the causes of which remain unexplained. Researchers at the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine (HUN-REN KOKI), Budapest, Hungary have ...

Schwann cells, which are also known as neurolemmocytes, provide the myelin sheath that protects the ... As a result, damaged axons – the long slender projections of nerve cells – can regrow ...

Schwann cells, which are also known as neurolemmocytes, provide the myelin sheath that protects the ... As a result, damaged axons—the long slender projections of nerve cells—can regrow ...

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 ...

MS occurs when a person’s immune system attacks myelin, the protective sheath that coats nerve fibers. The damage to nerve cells causes the brain to shrink as well as symptoms like muscle weakness, ...