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Node of Ranvier in the peripheral nervous system. The nodes are primarily are composed of sodium and potassium voltage-gated ion channels; CAMs such as neurofascin-186 and NrCAM; and cytoskeletal adaptor proteins such as ankyrin-G and spectrinβIV. [4]
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (2 October 1835 – 22 March 1922) was a French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, who discovered the nodes of Ranvier, regularly spaced discontinuities of the myelin sheath, occurring at varying intervals along the length of a nerve fiber.
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Myelinated axons only allow action potentials to occur at the unmyelinated nodes of Ranvier that occur between the myelinated internodes. It is by this restriction that saltatory conduction propagates an action potential along the axon of a neuron at rates significantly higher than would be possible in unmyelinated axons (150 m/s compared from 0.5 to 10 m/s). [1]
Nodes of Ranvier (also known as myelin sheath gaps) are short unmyelinated segments of a myelinated axon, which are found periodically interspersed between segments of the myelin sheath. Therefore, at the point of the node of Ranvier, the axon is reduced in diameter. [19] These nodes are areas where action potentials can be generated.
The myelin sheath is not continuous but is segmented along the axon's length at gaps known as the nodes of Ranvier. In the peripheral nervous system the myelination of axons is carried out by Schwann cells. [1] Oligodendrocytes are found exclusively in the CNS, which comprises the brain and spinal cord.
The protein encoded by this gene, ankyrin-3 is an immunologically distinct gene product from ankyrins ANK1 and ANK2, and was originally found at the axonal initial segment and nodes of Ranvier of neurons in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Alternatively spliced variants may be expressed in other tissues.
8506 53321 Ensembl ENSG00000108797 ENSMUSG00000017167 UniProt P78357 O54991 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_003632 NM_016782 RefSeq (protein) NP_003623 NP_058062 Location (UCSC) Chr 17: 42.68 – 42.7 Mb Chr 11: 101.06 – 101.08 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse CASPR also known as Contactin associated protein 1, Paranodin and CASPR1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ...