Becker's World of the Cell 9th Edition by Lewis Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni

Exercise 8

Multiple Sclerosis and Action Potential Propagation. Multiple sclerosis (MS)is an autoimmune disease that attacks myelinated nerves and degrades the myelin sheath around them. How do you think the propagation of action potentials would be affected in a nerve cell that has been damaged in a patient with MS