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How is myelin produced?

In the central nervous system, oligodendrocytes are responsible for myelination and in the peripheral nervous system, the Schwann cells are.

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What is the function of myelin?

Myelin is the material that covers the spinal cord. It protects thecord from damage. If the myelin wears away, then a person is saidto have Multiple Sclerosis.

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What is myelination?

The process by which the axons are covered and insulated by layers of fat cells, which increases the speed at which information travels through the nervous system.

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What is the purpose of myelin?

Myelin is the material that forms a layer around the axon of a neuron. It is essential for the neuron because it increases the speed of the impulses that propagate along the f… (MORE)

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What is the function of a myelin?

Myelin (sheath) is a white fatty covering (of proteins and phospholipids) that wrap around axons (long nerve fibers that deliver impulses from one neuron to another) insulatin… (MORE)

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What is myelin composed of?

Scwhann cells, a type of glial cell, wrap their membranes around neuronal axons many times to form the myelin sheath. It is mostly composed of lipids (fats)

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Myelin is defined as?

a soft, white, fatty material in the membrane of Schwann cells and certain neuroglial cells

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Myelin is formed by?

Myelin is made of lipids of proteins, but it functions slightly differently depending on where in our nervous system it's employed. Our body has a Peripheral Nervous System th… (MORE)

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What does the myelin do in the eye?

Demyelination in the brain and its effects on the optic nerve can cause objects directly ahead to be blurred in one eye, and eventually lead to blindness in that eye.

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What is myelin sheets?

The fibre that carries impulses to the effector organ is called axon which is covered by a sheath made of a fatty material called myelin. The myelin then insulates the axon pr… (MORE)