Myelin forms an insulating layer around these axons, the purpose of which is to allow electrical impulses to transmit efficiently and rapidly
along the axonal pathways.
This interrupts the transport of cellular materials
along axonal microtubules, causing these materials to accumulate at several points along the axon where they may give rise to varicosities.
Not exact matches
Although both types of memory were laid down in the medial prefrontal cortex, they were stored
along separate paths or
axonal projections, which in turn linked to different brain regions (Cell, DOI: 10.1016 / j.cell.2016.05.010).
Chronic autoimmune inflammatory damage to the brain produces waves of demyelination (blue line in the graph) and cumulative
axonal loss (green line in the graph) in different intensities
along time leading to all MS phenotypes.