Much like the insulation around the wires in electrical systems, glial cells form a membraneous sheath surrounding axons called myelin, thereby insulating the axon. This myelination, as it is ...

"The survival of its glial cell population was measured in the ... this mechanism of metabolizing fatty acids from the myelin ...

Oligodendrocytes are the glial cells that form myelin sheaths around ... in which the immune system attacks oligodendrocytes and damages the myelin sheath, but also in Alzheimer’s disease ...

Dr. Pablo M. Paez is a Principal Investigator of the Institute for Myelin and Glia Exploration and Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical ...

In a previous study, the Göttingen researchers had already discovered that defective myelin of oligodendrocytes exacerbates Alzheimer's disease. Do glial cells play an even greater role in the ...

A research team at Case Western Reserve University is pioneering a novel approach to MS treatment by targeting toxic ...