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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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Around a million people around the world are affected by MS, a degenerative disease in which the immune system attacks myeline, the fatty sheath that protects nerve fibres.
MS drug brakes progression to full-blown disease by AFP / AFP Global Edition
These last two must be taken by injection: the thiamine daily and the liver extract twice weekly, as they are destroyed by the process of digestion and are the two vital ingredients in the treatment, due to [their ability to effect] a quick response of the lifting of the horrible fatigue and rebuilding of the myeline sheath, which causes the crippling symptoms of MS.
Health Canada censoring the Klenner Protocol by Townsend Letter
Around a million people around the world are affected by MS, a degenerative disease in which the immune system attacks myeline, the fatty sheath that protects nerve fibres.
Multiple sclerosis: Drug brakes progression to full-blown disease by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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