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 new study has identified the protein hnRNP A1 as a key player in the production and maintenance of myelin, the fatty sheath ...

Research published in the Journal of Neurochemistry has detailed the role of a protein, hnRNP A1, in the formation and ...

As the voltage increases along the axon, additional sodium channels open, propagating the signal. The myelin sheath made of protein and fatty substances surrounds the axons of certain nerve cells and ...

A new study from Shanghai University uses mathematical models to suggest that certain fatty structures (which sheath ...

The molecular mechanisms underlying myelin sheath destruction in multiple sclerosis ... specifically bound to disintegrating myelin around axons in lesions of acute multiple sclerosis and the ...

Moreover, because myelin is produced by non-neuronal glial cells called oligodendrocytes, which myelinate axons by extending thin processes of their cell membranes to wrap around them, the study ...

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 ...

Myelin is a fatty substance produced by oligodendrocytes (cells of the central nervous system) that forms a sheath, like a kind of "insulator." It "protects" the extensions of neurons (axons ...

Study uncovers how the protein hnRNP A1 may impact myelin stability, offering new clues in schizophrenia development.

These cells are important regulators of nervous system signal transduction and regulate many physiological processes, for example oligodendrocytes are responsible for the production of the axon ...

It “protects” the extensions of neurons (axons) and increases the conduction ... process in the animals and then restore the myelin sheath. This allowed for an interesting study window.