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 ...

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

Maintaining the right balance of anti-inflammatory mediators, which allow tissue repair and healing ... are the glial cells that form myelin sheaths around nerve fibers, which allow rapid and ...