Examples of 'myelin sheath' in a sentence

Meaning of "myelin sheath"

The myelin sheath is a protective layer surrounding nerve cells that helps transmit electrical signals quickly and efficiently throughout the body
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  • An envelope of myelin that surrounds nerve fibres.

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They contribute segments of myelin sheath to multiple axons.
The immune system destroys proteins components of myelin sheath.
The destruction of this myelin sheath is referred to as demyelination.
The axon is insulated by a myelin sheath.
Damage occurs to the myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous system.
It also includes the myelin sheath.
Breakdown of the myelin sheath stops the nerves working properly.
Of this is furnished by the myelin sheath.
It also preserves the myelin sheath surrounding the nerves.
Brain biopsy revealed severe damage to the myelin sheath.
Myelin sheath gap.
In neurone with myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath enables rapid conduction along the neuron.
Is eroding the myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath covering the processes of neurons is targeted by immune attack.

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In a neurone without myelin sheath.
It occurs when the myelin sheath of the nerve cells becomes damaged.
Little slots here where you do not have myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath acts as a dielectric or capacitive protective layer on a nerve axon.
This reduces the destruction of myelin sheath around nerve fibers.
The pathologic hallmark of the disease is loss of the myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath is made up of specialized cells that surround the axon.
Nerve signals are conducted by an axon with a myelin sheath wrapped around it.
The myelin sheath gets stripped from the axons in a process known as demyelination.
Axonal degeneration is followed by degradation of the myelin sheath and infiltration by macrophages.
The main pathological manifestation is the selective destruction of the myelin sheath.
These symptoms are caused by damage to the myelin sheath of the peripheral nerves.
Certain conditions have long been associated with damage to the myelin sheath.
Normal nerves are surrounded by a myelin sheath to for and protect them from damage.
Sphingolipids are a component of all membranes but are particularly abundant in the myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath protects the nerve structure and helps nerve cell interaction.
Then the oligodendrocytes started to make the protein used to form the myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath helps to speed nerve impulses traveling within the nervous system.
The cell type that produces the myelin sheath around the axons is the oligodendrocyte.
The myelin sheath facilitates the transmission of nerve impulses through a nerve fiber or axon.
But the spike in the electrical activity from each swap is eroding the myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath surrounds the electrically conductive branch of a nerve cell called the axon.
The spinal cord becomes thinner and nerve cells lose some of their myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath provides insulation for the nerve impulse when communicating between neural systems.
Oligodendrocyte membrane extensions wrap around the axons in a concentric fashion to form the myelin sheath.
The myelin sheath is formed in the CNS by certain parts of oligodendrocytes.
These neuropathies result from flaws in genes responsible for manufacturing neurons or the myelin sheath.
PIP is the proteolipid protein component of the myelin sheath of the central nervous system.
EAE is induced in susceptible animals by immunodominant epitopes of the myelin sheath.
Thickness of the axonal myelin sheath was categorized as very thin, thin, or normal.
So Schwann cells make up the myelin sheath.
When the myelin sheath is damaged, nerve signals slow down or stop.
SMOG is a component of the myelin sheath.
Myelin sheath will be stained blue, but other structures will be stained as well.
The axon of a CNS neuron is wrapped in a myelin sheath.

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