An ageing view of myelin repair

Klaus-Armin Nave
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Klaus-Armin Nave: Klaus-Armin Nave is at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Hermann-Rein-Strasse 3, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany. nave@em.mpg.de

Nature, 2008, vol. 455, issue 7212, 478-479

Abstract: When the myelin layer that covers neuronal processes is lost through disease, neural stem cells recapitulate the developmental program of 'myelination'. The underlying molecular mechanisms often fail in the ageing brain.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1038/455478a

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