Schwann cells are derived from the neural crest and play crucial roles in the maintenance and regeneration of the motor and sensory neurons of the peripheral nervous system (PNS).

Corneal nonmyelinating Schwann cells illuminated by single‐cell transcriptomics and visualized by protein biomarkers. Journal of Neuroscience Research , 2020; DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24757 Cite This Page : ...

Scientists show that Schwann cells take over functions of immune cells in nerve healing. Similar mechanisms could prevent nerve tumors from growing. Schwann cells are known to protect and repair ...

When Schwann cell function returned, so did the mice’s ability to detect vibrations. The team was further able to identify differences in sensory input from Schwann cells using optogenetics, ...

Research into the mechanisms of diabetic neuropathy have focused on neurons, but evidence is accumulating that Schwann cells have a central role. In this Review, the authors consider how Schwann ...

In discovering how Schwann cells generate myelin at the molecular level, the discovery may lead to new gene-therapy techniques to repair damaged myelin in peripheral nervous system disorders such ...

In discovering how Schwann cells generate myelin at the molecular level, the discovery may lead to new gene-therapy techniques to repair damaged myelin in peripheral nervous system disorders such ...

Researchers from Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and at the Swiss University of Fribourg have now found that the Schwann cells and axons may be behind this regeneration process.

But Schwann cells are hard to come by in useful numbers. So researchers have been taking readily available and noncontroversial mesenchymal stem cells (also called bone marrow stromal stem cells that ...