The Myelin Sheath: Shape, Size ... almost all axons with diameters greater than 0.2 μm are myelinated. In cross section, the myelinated axon appears as a nearly circular profile surrounded ...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have discovered a human antibody which when injected as a single dose to laboratory mouse models was able to repair myelin. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have ...

A long fibre (axon) which is insulated by a fatty (myelin) sheath. They are long so they can carry messages up and down the body. Tiny branches (dendrons) which branch further as dendrites at each ...

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