Nerve fibers are surrounded by a myelin sheath. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now made the first-ever "live" observations of how this protective layer is formed.

The myelin lamella is formed by fusion of the apposed inner leaflets of the plasma membrane in glial cells, with no intervening cytoplasm (Figure 1B). Depending on the location, different glial ...

Complex mechanisms regulate myelin formation The working group led by Prof. Dr. Michael Wegner, Chair of Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry at FAU, is researching how oligodendrocytes regulate the ...

A new study reveals that neural stem cell grafts can generate new myelin in the central nervous system, offering hope for ...

Multiple Sclerosis Insights from Views of Myelin Formation at Neuron-Glial Synapses January 12, ... “There may be a way to intervene so that you can increase the myelin sheath,” he said.

very narrow space of the myelin sheath," Grutzendler says. Their analyses revealed protein differences between tissue affected by Alzheimer's disease and that of healthy individuals. Some of these ...

New research reveals that Alzheimer's disease may impair nerve function not by reducing myelin, but by altering the proteins ...

“If we learn how the proteins that make up the myelin sheath are affected in the diseased state compared to a non-diseased state, we might be able to figure out what’s going on when the disease ...

Myelin is an insulating sheath around axons - the processes connecting nerve cells ... In the central nervous system, myelin is formed by specialized glial cells called oligodendrocytes.