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SUBMITTER: Yurlova L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3297774 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yurlova Larisa L Kahya Nicoletta N Aggarwal Shweta S Kaiser Hermann-Josef HJ Chiantia Salvatore S Bakhti Mostafa M Pewzner-Jung Yael Y Ben-David Oshrit O Futerman Anthony H AH Brügger Britta B Simons Mikael M
Biophysical journal 20111201 11
Rapid conduction of nerve impulses requires coating of axons by myelin sheaths, which are multilamellar, lipid-rich membranes produced by oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system. To act as an insulator, myelin has to form a stable and firm membrane structure. In this study, we have analyzed the biophysical properties of myelin membranes prepared from wild-type mice and from mouse mutants that are unable to form stable myelin. Using C-Laurdan and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, we f ...[more]