The Myelin Sheath: Shape, Size, and Composition What exactly is myelin? Myelin is a concentrically laminated membrane structure surrounding an axon around which lamellae (or cellular protrusions ...

The axon is surrounded by multilamellar structure of myelin. (E) Myelinated nerve fiber reproduced in vitro by coculture of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons and Schwann cells. Myelin segments are ...

“The paper shows very clearly that the ability to generate new myelin is necessary for adult mice to learn a complex motor task,” said the University of Michigan’s Gabriel Corfas, author of an ...

Since most lipids are found in the myelin sheaths, the team checked whether ... the nature of mental illness and its impact on the structure and functioning of the brain,” said Maria Osetrova ...

They have some features in common: 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 ...

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 ...