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Examples of myelin
myelin
The experimental chemical cuprizone destroys myelin via an unexpected mechanism.
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It is myelin that gives the white matter in the brain its characteristic colour.
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According to Keirstead, the injury was so minor that no loss of myelin occurred.
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For example, slowing of the NCV usually indicates there is damage to the myelin.
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In order to build these sheaths, the brain needs a fatty substance called myelin.
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Both the axonal and myelin integrity of these white matter tracts were reduced.
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These cells are involved in the transmision of nerve impulses and produce myelin.
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So it appears that the gene instructs the Schwann cells to build the myelin wrap.
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If myelin does not function properly, signaling within the brain may be slower.
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- A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers
- (myelinated) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin
- Myelin is a dielectric (electrically insulating) material that forms a layer, the myelin sheath, usually around only the axon of a neuron. It is essential for the proper functioning of the nervous system. Myelin is an outgrowth of a glial cell. ...
- A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves
- (myelination) The production of a coating of myelin around an axon
- (Myelinated) having a myelin sheath. Nerves that do not have the myelin sheath are gray, and th ey make up the "gray matter" of the brain and spinal cord.
- (MYELINATION) developmental process in which myelin, an insulating fatty substance, wraps around the axon, producing faster, more efficient transmission of signals
- The outer lipid rich (fatty) layer that covers nerves and nervous system pathways in the brain and spinal cord.
- A fatty insulating substance that covers, at regular intervals, many of the axons in the central and peripheral nervous system; myelin serves to increase the speed of transmission of impulses, by allowing them to jump from one unmyelinated segment to the next (this is called saltatory conduction)
