Myelin Sheath

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A dose dependent relationship between vitamin A and brain myelin lipids in vitamin A deficient rats. 
  • An apolipoprotein E-mimetic stimulates axonal regeneration and remyelination after peripheral nerve injury. 
  • An x-ray study of the condensed and separated states of sciatic nerve myelin. 
  • An x-ray study of the effect of enzymes on frog sciatic nerve myelin. 
  • Analysis of the quasi-static approximation for calculating potentials generated by neural stimulation. 
  • Biophysically realistic neuron models for simulation of cortical stimulation. 
  • CNS myelin wrapping is driven by actin disassembly. 
  • Coupling Magnetically Induced Electric Fields to Neurons: Longitudinal and Transverse Activation. 
  • Deletion of a splicing enhancer disrupts PLP1/DM20 ratio and myelin stability. 
  • Denatured muscle as a nerve conduit: a functional, morphologic, and electrophysiologic evaluation. 
  • Developing nodes of Ranvier are defined by ankyrin-G clustering and are independent of paranodal axoglial adhesion. 
  • Diffusion tensor imaging and myelin composition analysis reveal abnormal myelination in corpus callosum of canine mucopolysaccharidosis I. 
  • Direct determination of the electron density profile of nerve myelin. 
  • Direct determination of the lamellar structure of peripheral nerve myelin at low resolution (17 A). 
  • Direct determination of the lamellar structure of peripheral nerve myelin at moderate resolution (7A). 
  • Disruption of ErbB receptor signaling in adult non-myelinating Schwann cells causes progressive sensory loss. 
  • EAE cerebrospinal fluid augments in vitro phagocytosis and metabolism of CNS myelin by macrophages. 
  • Evaluation of normal age-related changes in anisotropy during infancy and childhood as shown by diffusion tensor imaging. 
  • Functional effects of lymphotoxin on crushed peripheral nerve. 
  • Gene products promoting remyelination are up-regulated in a cell therapy product manufactured from banked human cord blood. 
  • High efficiency electrodes for deep brain stimulation. 
  • High-field (9.4 T) MRI of brain dysmyelination by quantitative mapping of magnetic susceptibility. 
  • Identification of a new locus for autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with focally folded myelin on chromosome 11p15. 
  • Impaired Myelination in rats given excess vitamin A postnatally. 
  • Induction of anti-myelin antibodies in EAE and their possible role in demyelination. 
  • Induction of sodium channel clustering by oligodendrocytes. 
  • Instability of myelin tubes under dehydration: deswelling of layered cylindrical structures. 
  • Lupus-related myelopathy: report of three cases and review of the literature. 
  • Magnesium efficacy in a rat spinal cord injury model. 
  • Modelling the effects of electric fields on nerve fibres: influence of the myelin sheath. 
  • Myelin basic protein phosphatase activity in rat brain. 
  • Neonatal E. coli infection causes neuro-behavioral deficits associated with hypomyelination and neuronal sequestration of iron. 
  • Neuronal vulnerability and multilineage diversity in multiple sclerosis. 
  • Observations on the effect of hypotonic solutions on the myelin sheath in the central nervous system. 
  • Oligoclonal myelin-reactive T-cell infiltrates derived from multiple sclerosis lesions are enriched in Th17 cells. 
  • Optic nerve sheath decompression for progressive central retinal vein occlusion. 
  • Optic nerve tissue sections derived from myelin-deficient mutant mice as culture substrata for fibroblast adhesion and spreading. 
  • Perioperative estimation of the intracranial pressure using the optic nerve sheath diameter during liver transplantation. 
  • Peripheral sensory nerve defects in apolipoprotein E knockout mice. 
  • Physiological roles of axonal ankyrins in survival of premyelinated axons and localization of voltage-gated sodium channels. 
  • Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in childhood ataxia with diffuse central nervous system hypomyelination. 
  • Quantitative magnetic susceptibility of the developing mouse brain reveals microstructural changes in the white matter. 
  • Sodium channel density in hypomyelinated brain increased by myelin basic protein gene deletion. 
  • Somatodendritic Expression of JAM2 Inhibits Oligodendrocyte Myelination. 
  • Sox2 expression in Schwann cells inhibits myelination in vivo and induces influx of macrophages to the nerve. 
  • Target size regulates calibre and myelination of sympathetic axons. 
  • The choice between the positive and negative structures for nerve myelin. 
  • The effects of exogenous nitric oxide donor on motor functional recovery of reperfused peripheral nerve. 
  • The lamellar structure of nerve myelin after rehydration. 
  • Three-dimensional reconstruction of tubular myelin. 
  • Toluene abuse embryopathy: longitudinal neurodevelopmental effects of prenatal exposure to toluene in rats. 
  • Tumor necrosis factor promotes motor functional recovery in crushed peripheral nerve. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Nielsen, Karen Cristina, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Ambulatory