Demyelination is the condition in which preexisting myelin sheaths are damaged and subsequently lost, and it is one of the leading causes of neurological disease (Figure 2). Primary demyelination ...

Scientists say that blocking a protein called DLK could help protect against neurodegeneration of demyelinated nerve cells in ...

The "good news" is that damaged myelin sheaths can be restored through a regenerative process known as remyelination. This process restores the proper electrical conduction along nerves, allowing for ...

Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

MS is neurodegenerative because the damaged myelin sheath and oligodendrocytes (cells that produce myelin) delay communication between nerve cells, thus resulting in the inefficient functioning of ...

the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Chronic loss of the protective myelin harms neurons. This damage leads to worsening disability in diseases such as MS that ...

Myelin is the protective sheath covering each nerve cell’s axon — the threadlike portion of a cell that transmits electrical signals between cells. Damage to myelin is associated with MS ...