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

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) may have uncovered a key reason why women tend to outlive men and maintain better cognitive function as they age. Their research ...

Myelin is a concentrically laminated membrane ... eds. The Axon: Structure, Function and Pathophysiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Dr. Pablo M. Paez is a Principal Investigator of the Institute for Myelin and Glia Exploration and Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical ...

The first step towards studying myelin degradation in diseases was to understand how myelin maintains its structure and function in a healthy brain. For this investigation, researchers turned to an ...

Even partial repair of myelin was found to significantly improve vision-related brain functions. "We've known for years that myelin plays a crucial role in brain function," said Daniel Denman ...

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 ...

We first determined that laminin 211, dystroglycan and certain integrins are required to form myelin of normal cytoarchitecture, and now we are seeking to understand why perturbing laminin function ...

It causes the immune system to attack and destroy myelin, a protective fatty tissue surrounding nerve cells. This process, called demyelination, affects the function of the central nervous system ...

Visual evoked potentials (VEP) offer a more sensitive and non-invasive method to identify early alterations in myelin function in the visual pathway. The current study utilized multifocal VEP ...