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A physical perspective to understand myelin II: The physical origin of myelin development
Yonghong Liu1, Wenji Yue1, Shoujun Yu1
1Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shenzhen, China.
Abstract:
The physical principle of myelin development is obtained from our previous study by explaining Peter's quadrant mystery: an externally 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 the E-field. Moreover, an experiment is proposed to validate this theory.

