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 molecular mechanisms underlying myelin sheath destruction in multiple sclerosis lesions remain unresolved. With immunogold–labeled peptides of myelin antigens and high–resolution ...

in which the disappearance of myelin and, therefore, of its energy contribution, facilitates structural damage and degeneration." Carlos Matute, Professor of Anatomy and Human Embriology at the ...