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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Myrobalan to receive over $850,000 in funding to advance the development of its GPR17 antagonist for progressive MS from the ...

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 ...

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 ...