How to Use myelin in a Sentence

myelin

noun

• As more and more myelin gets destroyed—a process called demyelination1—M.S. symptoms pop up.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 19 Apr. 2022
• One of the most surprising of these new findings involves myelin.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
• The destruction of the myelin reduces the nerve's ability to function.
  — Stmichaelschool, cleveland.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• These cells will leave the lymph nodes and actually defend myelin.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• The immune systems eats away at the fatty sheathing that covers and protects the nerve fibers in these areas (myelin).
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 22 Oct. 2018
• Based on their findings, the researchers say that VGF also promotes the regrowth of myelin in our nervous system.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2016
• These extensions are swaddled in a blubbery layer of fat and protein known as myelin.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 4 May 2022
• An analogy sometimes given is that the nervous system is like the wiring of a lamp, and the myelin like the wiring’s protective sheath; when that sheath wears away, so much can go wrong.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Think of myelin as a kind of insulation or protective coating for nerve cells.
  — Molly Lotz, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• The outer layer of myelin is attached to the axon adjacent to the perinodal astrocytes.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2020
• But scientists don’t know if extra myelin is a cause or an effect of misophonia.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• So far, there’s no therapy to reverse the harm caused by the disease, in which the immune system attacks the myelin sheath surrounding neurons.
  — Naomi Kresge, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• But when myelin becomes inflamed, perhaps due to a virus, that signal gets disrupted.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 19 Oct. 2018
• In this case, your immune system mistakenly attacks your myelin and damages the myelin sheath.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 7 Mar. 2022
• The more the myelin is damaged, the more the nerves are interrupted, producing a variety of symptoms that vary in severity.
  — Samantha Pell, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• MS is a disease of the central nervous system (spinal cord and brain) in which the immune system attacks myelin, the protective coating around nerve fibers.
  — Samantha Pell, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2017
• This growth in connectivity presents itself as white matter in the brain, which comes from a fatty substance called myelin.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• Drugs like inhalants can change the structure of the nervous system by destroying myelin: the fatty substance that coats the nerves like insulation.
  — Stmichaelschool, cleveland.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• The prefrontal cortex trims away neural connections that are not needed and begins the process of myelination, or wrapping nerve cells in myelin.
  — Molly Lotz, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
• That causes damage to your neural cells as well as myelin, a fatty substance that insulates those cells, Dr. Kesari says.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Oct. 2017
• Specifically, as the Mayo Clinic explains, MS occurs when your immune system attacks the myelin, which is the sheath that protects your nerve fibers.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• In both types of MS, immune system cells attack and strip away myelin, the fatty protective sheathing that insulates nerve cells.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
• Blocking seizures with the anti-epilepsy drug ethosuximide (sold under the name Zarontin by Pfizer) reduced the thickening of the myelin.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 4 May 2022
• In cells that make myelin, the substance that insulates and protects nerves, an abundance of sulfatides destroys tissue throughout the brain, spinal cord, and other parts of the nervous system.
  — Vibhav Rangarajan, STAT, 5 June 2018
• His research shows that when a mouse’s ears lose the myelin that insulates the neurons, the critter experiences the symptoms of hidden hearing loss, even though its synapses are fine.
  — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
• Helping that signal travel so fast is insulating material called myelin that covers the nerve cells in the spinal cord.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 19 Oct. 2018
• The nervous system is especially dependent on B12 because many fatty acids are used to make myelin, the sheaths that wrap our neurons and nerve bundles.
  — Nathan H. Lents, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2018
• To pull that off, axons are insulated with myelin, a fatty substance that speeds transmission.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• Here, the researchers were looking at a specific neural structures, the myelin sheaths that encapsulate and protect our neurons.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2016
• Without myelin, crucial signals between the brain and the body become garbled or simply go missing entirely.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024