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Ric Devon
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Department of Oral Biology
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
B.Sc. (1975) University of Western Australia
Ph.D. (1981) University of Western Australia
Dr. Devon is interested in the process of
myelination, in which glial cells wrap nerve cell fibers in layers
of insulating membrane. Efforts in his laboratory examine the
metabolic requirements for myelin formation,and how this process
might be disrupted by oxygen free radicals. The formation of
myelin is studied using both morphological and biochemical techniques.
It is hoped that a detailed understanding of the myelination
process will shed light on what may go wrong in demyelinating
diseases, and whether therapies using anti-oxidant compounds
might be used to prevent or reverse demyelinating pathology.
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