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UK
/mˈaɪɪlˌɪn/
]
[ US /ˈmaɪɪɫɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈmaɪɪɫɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers
How To Use myelin In A Sentence
- These constricted unmyelinated regions are called nodes of Ran-vier (rahn-vee-ay), after the French histologist Louis Antoine The Human Brain
- This paper will mainly illustrate the advance in pathological mechanism of demyelinating canine distemper encephalitis.
- The process of demyelination interrupts the electrical impulses that run through these nerve fibers, causing weakness and paralysis. The Autoimmune Epidemic
- In relatively primitive organisms like clams, all nerves are unmyelinated. Stem cells, Part 1, Introduction and Ethics
- They then manipulated them in the laboratory to turn them into specialised cells that form myelin, the insulating layer than surrounds nerve fibres.
- MS is a chronic, progressive neurological disease that involves the loss of myelin from nerves in the brain and spinal cord.
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is important to recognise because it is treatable.
- About 50% of patients with a first demyelinating episode develop multiple sclerosis; interferon decreases this risk.
- In MS, a protective nerve-fiber coating called myelin comes under attack. Study links MS to mononucleosis virus | Impact Lab
- Although fish axons are capable of regeneration, they are nevertheless repelled by mammalian CNS myelin and oligodendrocytes.