Sentences with phrase «around nerve fibers»

Oligodendrocytes, in red, create a protective sheath around nerve fibers in human brain tissue.

The clumsiness, blurred vision, and other symptoms of multiple sclerosis have long been blamed on the loss of fatty insulation around nerve fibers.

In humans, MS arises when the immune system mistakenly attacks the protective sheath around nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord.

-- This stage is very important in development of your baby as it develops gross and fine motor control, the near and far senses and it develops neural pathways and further creates myelin around each nerve fiber.

These proteins in the tissue around the nerve fibers inhibit nerve - fiber growth.

The attack targets the fatty shield around nerve fibers, gradually impeding the body's signals to the brain and vice versa.

September 18, 2013 NIH awards University of Chicago $ 1.5 million to study novel therapy for multiple sclerosis Researchers from the University of Chicago have been awarded a five - year, $ 1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop stimulated dendritic cell - derived exosomes that show remarkable promise as a treatment for multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases involving loss of myelin, the insulation around nerve fibers.

Cholesterol serves as the starting material for many important body compounds including bile acids, sex hormones, adrenal hormones, and vitamin D. Cholesterol is also need to form cell membranes and the myelin sheath around nerve fiber.

Balance impairment is one of the most common and disabling symptoms of MS, a disease of the central nervous system in which the body's immune system attacks the protective sheath around nerve fibers.

In healthy individuals, Schwann cells wrap themselves around nerve fibers to insulate and protect them, much like the coating on a household electrical cord.

In addition, the researchers discovered a network of downregulated genes involved in myelination (the process of forming a sheath around a nerve fiber to allow nerve impulses to move quickly) that also was associated with binge eating.

A1 bathwater also impaired the development of yet another class of non-neuron brain cells called oligodendrocytes — essentially fat - filled flapjacks that wrap themselves around nerve fibers, providing electrical insulation that speeds long - distance signal propagation.

December 14, 2015 Brain cell death is a possible trigger of multiple sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) may be triggered by the death of brain cells that make myelin, the insulation around nerve fibers, according to research on a novel mouse model developed by scientists from the University of Chicago and Northwestern Medicine.

For example, fats are critical for brain and nervous system function because the myelin (a sheath around nerve fibers that that electrical impulses are transmitted) is made of essential fatty acids.

In degenerative myelopathy, the myelin (the insulation around the nerve fibers) and the nerve fibers that carry signals to the muscles do not communicate so the nerve's signals to move are not followed.