Sentences with phrase «myelin around each nerve fiber»

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The detail of the cerebral cortext shows the myelin fibers that form an electrically insulating layer around the nerve cells (green / violet).

An unpredictable disease that disrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and the body, MS is triggered when the immune system attacks the myelin sheath, the protective covering around the axons of nerve fibers.

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.

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.

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.