WHILE examining the histochemistry of the optic nerve, we observed beaded transverse band-like areas, which were more dense than the other areas in the myelin sheath in osmium-tetroxide-fixed ...

We found that nearly every optic nerve fiber was remyelinated with a thin myelin sheath, which is important for understanding human disease because in multiple sclerosis, the optic nerve is often ...

It primarily affects the central nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. In India, this disease ...

Schwann cell autophagy, myelinophagy, initiates myelin clearance from injured nerves. The Journal of Cell Biology , 2015; 210 (1): 153 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201503019 Cite This Page : ...

When optic nerves are injured, OPCs fail to develop into cells capable of producing myelin. In the new paper, the researchers found two reasons for this. The first reason is that OPCs in injured ...

One reason for this is that Schwann cells, which supply the protective sheath of myelin that covers axons in the PNS, are able to help clear away damaged myelin and guide regeneration after nerve ...

Myelin sheath thickness of both large axons (>0.8 μm 2) and small axons (<0.8 μm 2) of the optic nerve in the control, anaemic, and recovered rats at postnatal day 32. Values are means±SE for n ...

Myelin sheath protein changes linked to impaired nerve signaling in Alzheimer's disease by Isabella Backman, Yale School of Medicine edited by Lisa Lock , reviewed by Robert Egan ...

In the central nervous system of humans and all other mammals, a vital insulating sheath composed of lipids and proteins around nerve fibers helps speed the electrical signals or nerve impulses that ...

Now, researchers from the University of California San Francisco have identified an over-the-counter antihistamine called clemastine that can reverse damage to the myelin sheath and, what’s more ...

In the brain, these sheathed nerve fibers make up most of the tissue known as white matter, but axons throughout the body are also coated in myelin. The myelin sheath’s main functions are to ...

John Svaren discusses myelin and myelin-producing cells in the nervous system. John Svaren, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Biosciences, UW-Madison, discusses his research of myelin ...