The protective fatty sheath of insulation around an axon, the long arm of a nerve cell. Myelin allows a message from the brain to be conducted to another part of the body without interruption.
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ADA Deficiency Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) Alexander Disease Alzheimer’s Disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Aplastic Anemia Astrocyte Autoimmune Disease Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Brain Injury Canavan Disease Cell Culture Cell Division Cell Therapy Central Nervous System Cerebral Palsy Childhood Ataxia with CNS Hypomyelination (CACH) Chromosome Chronic Granulomatous Disease Clone Colitis Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID) Composite Tissue Transplant Crohn’s Disease Dental Stem Cell Banking Diabetes Differentiation DNA Embryo Enzyme Deficiencies Epigenetics Epilepsy Face Transplant Fertilization Fetus Gene Hand Transplant Heart Damage Heart Defects in Infants Heart Transplant Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC) Hunter’s Syndrome Huntington’s Disease Immune Deficiency In Vitro In Vitro Fertilization In Vivo Intestine Transplant IPSC Ischemia Islet Cell Transplant Kidney Transplant Krabbe Disease Leukemia Leukodystrophy Liver Transplant Lung Transplant Lupus Lymphoma Lysosomal Storage Disorder Macular Degeneration Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) Metabolic Disorders Metabolic Myopathies Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) Microenvironment Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) Multiple Myeloma Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Multipotent Myelin Myelin Regeneration Myelodysplasia Myelofibrosis Neural Stem Cells Neurons Niemann-Pick Disease Oligodendrocyte Organ Transplants Pancreas Transplant Pancreatic Islet Transplant Parkinson’s Disease Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Pluripotent Psoriasis Refsum Disease Regenerative Medicine Rheumatoid Arthritis Scleroderma Severe Combined Immunodefiency (SCID) Sickle Cell Disease Spinal Cord Injury Stem Cell Stroke Thalassemia Umbilical Cord or “Cord Blood” Cells Undifferentiated Cell
