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 ...

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

A Penn Medicine neurologist was awarded the 2025 John Dystel Prize for his research on immune cells and how they interact to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

They have some features in common: A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath ... The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. Muscles contracting or glands secreting hormones ...

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 ...