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myelin

[ UK /mˈa‍ɪɪlˌɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈmaɪɪɫɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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