Myelin, the protective sheath around nerve fibers, plays a crucial role in brain communication. It ensures fast and efficient transmission of electrical signals. When damaged, this insulation breaks ...

You disconnect your cell phone from its charger as you get ready for a busy day. But even though it has been connected all night, the battery is only partially charged. You look at ...

In MS, slowly expanding lesions were linked to more myelin loss in brain regions of damage and in normal-appearing brain ...

How does our nervous system operate so quickly and efficiently? The answer lies in a membranous structure called myelin. Aa Aa Aa All our activities — eating, walking, talking — are controlled ...

"The primary motivation behind our recent paper was a very speculative idea that myelin may have evolved as a highly ...

A new multiple sclerosis (MS) research project designed to help the brain repair itself by activating its own healing ...

A discovery led by OHSU was made possible by years of study conducted by University of Portland undergraduates. Scientists ...

Ocrevus treatment was linked to increases in myelin and reductions in iron in MS patients with paramagnetic rim lesions, per ...

MS is a neurological disease. It causes the immune system to attack and destroy myelin, a protective fatty tissue surrounding nerve cells. This process, called demyelination, affects the function ...

We have recently discovered that mechanical forces generated by the extracellular matrix and other cells are also essential for correct myelination, and we are actively pursuing the molecular ...

Conditional knock-out mice in which Myrf is knocked out in the OL lineage cells completely fail to develop CNS myelin and exhibit severe neurological symptoms, eventually prematurely dying. Recently, ...