Myelinated nerve fibers are designed in an optimal manner which requires tuning of conduction time with millisecond precision. This involves the highly coordinated differentiation of axons and myelin-forming glial cells; the nature of the signals involved in this axon-glial cell dance are beginning to be elucidated.
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Stephen G. Waxman (1997) studied this question.
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