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DURING the course of an electron microscopic study of the hippocampal region in the rat an interesting periodicity associated with the axolemma was observed in the ...

His study, “TREK-1 and TRAAK are principal K+ channels at the Nodes of Ranvier for rapid action potential conduction on mammalian myelinated afferent nerves,” was recently published in the Cell Press ...

Discovered by French scientist Louis-Antoine Ranvier in 1878, these tiny nodes have been known since 1939 to act like relay stations placed about 1 millimeter apart along the myelinated nerve to ...

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Robertson, Sally. (2022, September 24). What is Myelin?.

3D reconstruction of electron microscopy images showing a perinodal astrocyte (blue), node of Ranvier (gray), compact myelin (purple), and layers of myelin detaching from the axon (tan).

During the transmission of electrical signals, the signal jumps from one Node or Ranvier to the next, allowing a myelin-containing fiber to transmit a signal 100 times faster than without myelin.