It causes demyelination, where the immune system attacks the myelin sheath, a protective layer of fat around brain and spinal cord nerve cells. This prevents the nerves from sending impulses or ...

Researchers found marathon running causes a temporary reduction in brain myelin, especially in areas related to motor ...

brain and spinal cord). In the PNS, one Schwann cell forms a single myelin sheath (Figure 1A). By contrast, in the CNS, the oligodendrocyte sends cell processes to myelinate multiple segments on ...

A decision on tolebrutinib for treating MS is now set for Sept. 28, after the FDA granted priority review to its approval ...

The CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. A misdirected inflammatory response damages nerve cells of a protective coating called myelin. Myelin coats the nerve fibers from the ...

You disconnect your cell phone from its charger as you get ready for a busy day. But even though it has been connected all night, the battery is only partially charged. You look at ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic central nervous system (CNS) disease that affects the brain, spinal cord ... own body – the nerve cell’s myelin sheath. The nervous system comprises ...

These cells normally attack viruses and bacteria, but in people with MS, they attack the covering around nerves in the brain and spinal cord known as the myelin sheath. Cladribine stops these cells ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

The medication, which will be rolled out to patients with relapsing-remitting MS, is thought to be the first in Europe to be taken at home on a widespread basis ...

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

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath ... The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. It coordinates the responses. Messages are then sent back along different neurones ...