A physical perspective to understand myelin. II. The physical origin of myelin development
Biological Physics
2022-03-25 v3
Abstract
The physical principle of myelin development is obtained from our previous study by explaining Peter's quadrant mystery: an external applied negative and positive E-field can promote and inhibit the growth of the inner tongue of the myelin sheath, respectively. In this study, this principle is considered as a fundamental hypothesis, named Hypothesis-E, to explain more phenomena about myelin development systematically. Specifically, the g-ratio and the fate of the Schwann cell's differentiation are explained in terms of E-field. Moreover, an experiment is proposed to validate this theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2111.13689,
title = {A physical perspective to understand myelin. II. The physical origin of myelin development},
author = {Yonghong Liu and Yapeng Zhang and Wenji Yue and Ran Zhu and Tianruo Guo and Fenglin Liu and Yubin Huang and Tianzhun Wu and Hao Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.13689},
year = {2022}
}