{"id":10078,"date":"2023-04-22T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:43:23","slug":"myelin-basic-protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/myelin-basic-protein\/","title":{"rendered":"Myelin Basic Protein"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Myelin Basic Protein:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a major <strong>protein component of the myelin sheath<\/strong>, which is a protective membrane that wraps around the <strong>axon of nerve cells<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It insulates and protects nerve fibres in the <strong>central nervous system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It acts as a model protein in studying diseases <strong>like multiple sclerosis<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The researchers used a technique <strong>called the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique<\/strong> to form monolayers of pure myelin basic protein at the air-water and air-solid interfaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is multiple sclerosis?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a disease that <strong>impacts the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered to be <strong>an immune-mediated disease<\/strong>. This means that in MS, the body&#8217;s immune system attacks the central nervous system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> Vision problems, Loss of balance or coordination, Muscle weakness etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the nervous system?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The nervous system is a complex network of cells, tissues, and organs that coordinate and control the functions of the body. It is responsible for receiving, processing, and responding to sensory information from the environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dst.gov.in\/scientists-fabricate-protein-can-help-study-diseases-multiple-sclerosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists fabricate proteins that can help study diseases like multiple sclerosis<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myelin Basic Protein is a protective membrane that wraps around the axon of nerve cells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}