There are also non-myelinating Schwann cells, which are required to provide nutrition and cushioning effects to non-myelinated axons. Schwann cells. Structure of neurolemmocytes.

New research reveals that despite the fragility of axons, the cellular envelope (Schwann cells) that encases them can come to their rescue when it senses that axons have been harmed.   ...

New research reveals for the first time that despite the fragility of axons, Schwann cells — which surround axons within nerves like a glove covers a hand — can come to the assistance of ...

Injured axons instruct Schwann cells to build specialized actin spheres to break down and remove axon fragments, thereby starting the regeneration process.

Researchers from Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and at the Swiss University of Fribourg have now found that the Schwann cells and axons may be behind this regeneration process.

Transplanted self-donated Schwann cells (SCs) aid hind limb functional recovery in rats modeled with spinal cord injury. SCs improved the lesion environment and helped prevent scar tissue from ...

Unmyelinated small-diameter sensory axons (which are ensheathed by non-myelinating Schwann cells) were particularly severely affected, and the mice also had a number of sensory deficits.

Glial cells play an important role in supporting the body's nervous system. Several types of glial cells exist. Learn more here.

Histological examination of transected dorsal columns with transplanted transgenic pig OECs or Schwann cells revealed dispersed axons exhibiting Schwann cell-like patterns of myelination (large ...

The Schwann cells also secrete signals that summon blood cells to aid the cleanup, and they map out a pathway for the axon to regrow. Finally, they return to the insulator role to grow a ...

A study has found that transplanting self-donated Schwann cells (SCs, the principal ensheathing cells of the nervous system) that are elongated so as to bridge scar tissue in the injured spinal ...

Instead, vertebrate axons evolved myelin to protect axons and speed up the signal transmission. To create myelin, Schwann cells evolved to produce it around a single axon in the peripheral nervous ...