BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, for the first time ever, have achieved patch-clamp studies of an elusive part of mammalian myelinated nerves called the Nodes of ...

Morphological and molecular evaluation of demyelinating neuropathies currently relies on invasive sural nerve biopsies. Skin biopsy is minimally invasive and has been used successfully to evaluate ...

Small Fiber Neuropathy (SFN) is a disorder in which the small diameter sensory myelinated (Aδ) and unmyelinated (C fiber) nerves of the peripheral nervous system are damaged. The peripheral nervous ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, for the first time ever, have achieved patch-clamp studies of an elusive part of mammalian myelinated nerves called the Nodes of Ranvier. At the nodes, ...

To rapidly transmit electrical signals in the brain, the long nerve fibers are insulated by specialized cells called oligodendrocytes. These cells also respond to the electrical signals of active ...

Researchers have achieved patch-clamp studies of an elusive part of mammalian myelinated nerves called the Nodes of Ranvier. At the nodes, they found unexpected potassium channels that give the ...