Sentences with phrase «insulation around nerve fibers»

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.

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.

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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.