Sentences with phrase «around nerve fibers in»

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

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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 eatinIn 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 eatinin 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.

The addition of a small amount of venom to the culture medium in the absence of the extract of sarcoma 180 elicited the growth of the same dense halo of nerve fibers around an isolated sensory or sympathetic ganglion.

Previously injured nerve fibers (in red) are shown re-growing through a dense astrocyte scar (in green) and around the...

Interestingly, about 90 % of the fibers in this spindly nerve carry signals upwards from the bowels toward the head, and not the other way around.

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.

When this happens, it can result in nerve fibers being torn and bleeding in and around the brain.