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What medical disorder in which the myelin in the CNS has been destroyed?
Multiple sclerosis affects the myelin sheath.
What is the medical term meaning hardening and degeneration of the myelin sheath?
Muscular sclerosis is hardening and degeneration of the myelin sheath. Muscular sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a disorder marked by destruction of the myelin sheath on neurons in the CNS and replacement with hard scar tissue.
What effect will multiple sclerosis a degenerative disorder that cause myelin to disintegrate have on a person's nerve impulses?
They will slow down
What is adrenomyeloneuropathy?
Adrenomyeloneuropathy is a progressive, X-linked, neurological disorder which deteriorates the myelin sheath which protects the spinal cord.
What insulates nerve fibers?
Myelin sheaths insulate nerve fibers
What is acute disseminated encephalomyelitis?
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADE) is a neurological disorder involving inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. A hallmark of the disorder is damage to the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerve fibers in the brain.
How do you spell adrenoleukodystrophy?
That is the correct spelling of "adrenoleukodystrophy" (also called Siemerling-Creutzfeldt Disease and adrenomyeloneuropathy) a disorder affecting myelin sheaths in the nervous system.
What research has been done on bipolar disorder?
A 2003 study found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder could have similar genetic causes that arise from certain problems with genes associated with myelin development in the central nervous system.
What is the definition of myelin sheath?
A myelin sheath is a layer of myelin (a dielectric, or electric insulator) around the axon of a neuron.
It insulates the axon of the neuron?
An insulating layer that surrounds the axon is a myelin sheath.
What increases the speed of the transmission?
Myelin Sheath Myelin Sheath
What are schwann cell nucleus'?
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