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Science 20 September 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5282, pp. 1657 - 1658
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5282.1657
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Research News

Marcia Barinaga

The rapid transmission of nerve signals in higher animals would not be possible if the nerves didn't have their insulating covering of myelin. Now determination of the structure of a key myelin protein, called P0, has helped explain how the tightly wrapped membranous layers that form the myelin are held together and also how some mutations weaken the glue, leading to neurological disease.




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