To make these electrical signals travel even faster, sections of the outer surface of many axons are coated with a layer of lipids (fats) called myelin. Myelin acts as an electrical insulator, ...

Axons can be shaped like strings of pearls, research in mice and people show. How that shape may influence brain signaling is not yet clear.

From this sophisticated appraisal of the disease process and from the evidence that large axons need myelin to survive and to maintain axonal flow and synapses, there is no doubt that multiple ...

The Feltri lab research focused on adhesion between myelinating cells, axons and the extracellular matrix and the signals that promote ... and we are actively pursuing the molecular mechanisms by ...

The neurons were nonmyelinated (they were without the myelin insulating cover that surrounds the axon). The researchers found the bubbly, pear shape of axons among all of the tens of thousands of ...

Based on the findings previously collected by Bellen and other researchers, Nave and his colleagues hypothesized that myelin, ...

Connections between neurons are called axons—long structures akin to electrical wires—and covering them is a coating ("sheath ...

Green fluorescent protein identifies human graft-derived axons, myelin (red) indicates host rat spinal cord white matter and blue marks host rat gray matter.

They have some features in common: 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 ...