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Myelin is an insulating structure that wraps around axons, allowing the fast and efficient ... show a reduction in the generation of new oligodendrocytes, and myelin regeneration fails.

Moreover, they showed the existence of two kinds of processes, the 'axis cylinder' (the axon) and the 'protoplasmic processes' (the dendrites), a discovery that led many scientists to speculate on ...

Myelin – produced by Schwann cells in the periphery and oligodendrocytes in the CNS – is defective in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and many myelin repair strategies aim to mitigate ...