The potential to use Schwann cells (SCs) in neural repair for patients suffering from neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases is well recognized. However, significant cell death after ...

GREEN SHOOTS: Matthias Schleiden was not satisfied merely with classifying plants; instead, he studied them under his microscope. Those observations prompted Schleiden to theorize about the importance ...

Researchers have found that Schwann cells, a special type of cells are capable of generating protective myelin sheath covers for the nerves at rates higher than earlier believed. Senior author Dr ...

Scientists show that Schwann cells take over functions of immune cells in nerve healing. Similar mechanisms could prevent nerve tumors from growing. Schwann cells are known to protect and repair ...

Schwann cells are a type of neuroglia that maintain and protect neurons in the peripheral nervous system, including those directly under the skin.

Adrien Vaquié, Alizée Sauvain, Mert Duman, Noo Li Jeon, Sophie Ruff, Claire Jacob, 'Injured Axons Instruct Schwann Cells to Build Constricting Actin Spheres to Accelerate Axonal Disintegration ...

Interestingly, HDAC8 is specifically produced in Schwann cells surrounding sensory neurons that transmit information on sensations, such as touch, temperature, and pain.

Although Schwann cells and immune cells may employ phagocytosis later in the cleanup process, the new findings indicate that in the first 5-7 days after injury, when 40-50% of the myelin is ...

Unlike Schwann cells, oligodendrocytes, the myelin makers in the central nervous system, can’t revert to an immature state. Whether c-Jun affects oligodendrocyte differentiation isn’t known. ### ...

If the Schwann cells cannot overcome this first major obstacle in the aftermath of nerve injury, the nerve cannot be adequately repaired," explains Ruth Stassart, one of the study authors.

In discovering how Schwann cells generate myelin at the molecular level, the discovery may lead to new gene-therapy techniques to repair damaged myelin in peripheral nervous system disorders such ...