| Schwann cells are well known to serve the function of myelination of peripheral nerves. However, they also house nonmyelinated nerves in "tidy" bundles see below. In this way they are very similar to olfactory ensheathing cells used in spinal cord repair experiments. like Schwann Cells... and yet olfactory axons were unmyelinated. Here is |
| Usually, one thinks of a Schwann Cell simply wrapping an axon in myelin: | However, even unmyelinated axons are "ensheathed" in Schwann Cells. There is no myelin here, the axons are simply held in invaginations of the Schwann Cell's cytoplasm: |
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| Home | This is thus analagous to the Olfactory Ensheathing Cells (OEC). |