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myelin
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myelin, myeline
a white tissue forming an insulating sheath (myelin sheath) around certain nerve fibres. Damage to the myelin sheath causes neurological disease, as in multiple sclerosis

myelin [′mī·ə·lən]
(neuroscience)
A soft, white fatty substance that forms a sheath around certain nerve fibers.


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The book describes the use of oils and magnetic fields to grow better quality protein crystals, deals with the use of bioinformatics and mass spectrometry in crystallomics, and discusses the role of molecular mimicry and the structure of amyloid proteins and myelin proteins in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.
To follow up on their study, they induced an MSlike disease in mice by injecting a combination of myelin proteins and lipids.
This was measured using Opexa' proprietary Epitope Analysis Assay (EAA) which assessed reactivity across all three key myelin proteins at several time points throughout the 52-week study.
 
 
 
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