Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

The myelin sheath is a protective covering that surrounds axons, which are the long thin projections that extend from the main body of a nerve cell or neuron.

Myelin sheath, a sleeve that protects a part of your nerve cells, and how it's related to multiple sclerosis. Read to learn more about its functions and how to protect it from damage.

The myelin sheath coating a neuron helps speed up the transmission of electrical signals in the brain. Now researchers have captured footage of a neuron receiving its coating.

Myelin Your Manners What would you see if you cut through an electrical cord? Insulation around the outside and tiny metallic wires stuffed in the middle. The structure of the axons in the nervous ...

In a new paper, published in the May 23 online issue of Science Translational Medicine, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that adult rat myelin actually ...

Scientists have identified a role in myelin production for a synapse that connects neurons and oligodendrocyte precursor cells.