Sentences with phrase «sheath around the axon»

But perhaps more significant, Ind - Cl remyelinates, that is, it makes new sheaths around those axons that have not been lost for good.

They form sheaths around axons, the tail - like parts of nerve cells that carry electrical impulses.

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In the AIDP variant of Guillain - Barré syndrome, the focus of the autoimmune attack is the myelin sheath, a layer of insulation that surrounds nerve axons, similar to the insulation around the wires of an electric cable.

The other is that the virus itself directly attacks neural cells and destabilizes the myelin sheath around them or damages axons to cause GBS.

Those signals are disrupted because myelin, the insulating sheath around a nerve cell's message - transmitting axons, becomes damaged.

Instead, supportive cells called oligodendrocytes are responsible for making the myelin sheath that wraps around axons.

Axons of these nerves leave the spinal cord in the ventral branches (rami) of the spinal nerves, and then separate out as «white rami» (so called from the shiny white sheaths of myelin around each axon) which connect to two chain ganglia extending alongside the vertebral column on the left and right.

These produce protective sheaths that wrap around the axons of peripheral neurons.

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.