Schwann Cell Myelinophagy (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University Press

Schwann Cell Myelinophagy

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This illustration shows the proposed role of myelinophagy in a Schwann cell after nerve injury and axon degeneration (right). The myelin sheath breaks up into fragments in the cytoplasm that are transported by autophagosomes to lysosomes for degradation.

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Gomez-Sanchez et al., 2015

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