The term demyelination refers to the loss of the myelin sheath that surrounds and protects axons in the central nervous system. Demyelination occurs as the result of diseases that damage the myelin ...

Myelin is a protective layer that forms around nerves to insulate them and speed transmission of electrical impulses. Demyelination, loss of this insulating layer, contributes to many neurological ...

Findings from a retrospective study comparing typical and myelocortical multiple sclerosis (MS) identified major pathological differences between the 2 MS subtypes and determined that demyelination ...

Demyelination – a term that might sound like scientific jargon but has real-world implications for many. Demyelination occurs when the protective covering of nerve fibers in the brain, spinal cord, ...

Myelin is a substance that forms an insulating sheath around the axons of nerve cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Myelin is mainly made up of lipids and in the central nervous ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is the most common chronic immune-mediated neuropathy. It affects peripheral nerves and roots. CIDP has no biomarkers. It may be monophasic or ...

Pembrolizumab and nivolumab, two humanized antibodies against programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) receptor, were recently approved for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic melanoma and for other ...

Efficient removal of abnormal myelin allows survival of nerve fibers targeted by adaptive immune cells, according to a novel study. Myelin is an insulating sheath around axons -- the processes ...

Demyelination – the loss or damage of the myelin that surrounds and insulates nerves – is the hallmark of the neurological disorder multiple sclerosis (MS). When segments of this protective membrane ...

New study findings have identified a subtype of multiple sclerosis—myelocortical multiple sclerosis—that has neuronal loss but no demyelination of the brain’s white matter, indicating that ...