 | Acta Crystallographica Section D Acta Crystallographica Section D BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY |
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Figure 4
Comparison between rat spinal cord (CNS) and sciatic nerve (PNS) myelin packing disorder and the crystallinity of myelin. The square of the full-width at half-maximum for each reflection (w2) is plotted against the fourth power of the Bragg order (h4). Dashed lines behind the data represent linear least-squares fits for spinal cord (blue) and sciatic nerve (red). The slope of each line is directly related to the amount of membrane-packing disorder in the tissue, while the intercept is inversely proportional to the crystallinity (the coherence length or the average number of layers of myelin; Inouye et al., 1989  ). The coherence lengths for spinal cord and sciatic nerve were approximately eight and 12 repeats (membrane pairs), respectively. |
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| BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY |
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