SCHWANN CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Schwann cell mean? 

• SCHWANN CELL (noun)
  The noun SCHWANN CELL has 1 sense:

1. any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath

  Familiarity information: SCHWANN CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHWANN CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("Schwann cell" is a kind of...):

somatic cell; vegetative cell (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes)

 Context examples 

A type of benign brain tumor that begins in the Schwann cells, which produce the myelin that protects the acoustic nerve - the nerve of hearing.

(Acoustic Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Such neoplasms include neuroepithelial cell neoplasms and neoplasms that arise from the perineural sheaths (perineurial cell neoplasms and Schwann cell neoplasms). —2003

(Neuroepithelial, Perineurial, and Schwann Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Some contain Schwann cells, bone, cartilage or hamartomatous blood vessels.

(Central Nervous System Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A slowly growing, benign, usually encapsulated tumor, composed of neoplastic differentiated Schwann cells.

(Benign Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An intraneural or extraneural neoplasm arising from nerve tissues and neural sheaths, composed of perineurial-like fibroblasts and Schwann cells.

(Neurofibroma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A benign peripheral nervous system neoplasm that is composed of well-differentiated Schwann cells and affects the heart.

(Benign Cardiac Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, it is composed of neoplastic differentiated Schwann cells.

(Benign Esophageal Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of perineurial-like fibroblasts and Schwann cells.

(Neurofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuregulin-1 has also been studied as the glial growth factor, which acts as a Schwann cell mitogen, and as ARIA (acetylcholine receptor inducing activity), a regulator of the expression of acetylcholine receptors.

(Neuregulin 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Subsequent studies have suggested a derivation from Schwann cells.

(Granular Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)