Recent research on marathon runners found a reduction in an important brain substance called myelin after the race.The study ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh are using the small minnow fish to study how MS damages the protective coating ...

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 ...

In MS, the immune system attacks fatty tissue that surrounds nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. Called myelin, this ...

Myelin is a fatty substance that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord, forming a sheath that facilitates the rapid transmission of electrical signals between neurons.

The name multiple sclerosis refers to scars (scleroses—better known as plaques or lesions) particularly in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord, which is mainly composed of myelin.

Treatment with CNM-Au8 led to clinical improvements in relapsing-remitting MS patients that linked to signs of nerve cell ...

Lower motor neurons originate in the spinal cord and directly or indirectly control voluntary ... triggered by signals from dendrites, and myelin sheaths surrounding the axon that accelerate action ...

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 ...