Alpha (α) motor neurons (also called alpha motoneurons), are large, multipolar lower motor neurons of the brainstem and spinal cord. They innervate extrafusal...
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effectors. Types of lower motor neurons are alpha motor neurons, beta motor neurons, and gamma motor neurons. A single motor neuron may innervate many muscle...
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A gamma motor neuron (γ motor neuron), also called gamma motoneuron, or fusimotor neuron, is a type of lower motor neuron that takes part in the process...
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Lower motor neurons (LMNs) are motor neurons located in either the anterior grey column, anterior nerve roots (spinal lower motor neurons) or the cranial...
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motor neurons (β motor neurons), also called beta motoneurons, are a few kind of lower motor neuron, along with alpha motor neurons and gamma motor neurons...
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Renshaw cell (category Central nervous system neurons)
two ways with an alpha motor neuron. They receive an excitatory collateral from the alpha neuron's axon as they emerge from the motor root, and are thus...
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afferent and efferent loops of the alpha motor neuron in its entirety. As such, various properties of F-wave motor nerve conduction are analyzed in nerve...
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Look up motor pool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A motor pool consists of all individual motor neurons that innervate a single muscle. Each individual...
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Grey columns (section Alpha motor neurons)
cord. The anterior grey column is made up of alpha motor neurons, gamma motor neurons, and small neurons thought to be interneurons. It affects the skeletal...
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fibers are the standard skeletal muscle fibers that are innervated by alpha motor neurons and generate tension by contracting, thereby allowing for skeletal...
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cortical neurons, send long axons down the spinal cord to synapse onto the interneuron circuitry of the spinal cord and also directly onto the alpha motor neurons...
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subtype of motor neuron they are associate with. Alpha motor neurons target extrafusal muscle fibers. The motor nerves associated with these neurons innervate...
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General somatic efferent fiber (redirect from Somatic efferent neuron)
carrying motor impulses to skeletal muscle through a neuromuscular junction. Of the somatic efferent neurons, there exist subtypes. Alpha motor neurons (α)...
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Spinal interneuron (category Neurons)
(afferent) sensory neurons, and (efferent) motor neurons. Different classes of spinal interneurons are involved in the process of sensory-motor integration....
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interconnect with Pyramidal cells Renshaw cells, neurons with both ends linked to alpha motor neurons Unipolar brush cells, interneurons with unique dendrite...
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Survival of motor neuron or survival motor neuron (SMN) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMN1 and SMN2 genes. SMN is found in the cytoplasm...
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Axon (redirect from Motor fiber)
neurons of the different motor fibers, were the lower motor neurons – alpha motor neuron, beta motor neuron, and gamma motor neuron having the Aα, Aβ, and...
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Stretch reflex (category Somatic motor system)
This increases alpha motor neuron activity, causing the muscle fibers to contract and thus resist the stretching. A secondary set of neurons also causes...
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In biology, a motor unit is made up of a motor neuron and all of the skeletal muscle fibers innervated by the neuron's axon terminals, including the neuromuscular...
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Reciprocal inhibition (category Motor control)
the alpha motor neuron that synapses onto the opposing muscle. Because the interneuron is inhibitory, it prevents the opposing alpha motor neuron from...
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gamma motor neurons and beta motor neurons that an individual is able to judge the position of their muscles. Alpha motor neuron Beta motor neuron Extrafusal...
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monosynaptically to many alpha motor neurons of the receptor-bearing muscle. The reflexly evoked activity in the alpha motor neurons is then transmitted via...
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spinal cord, completely independent of higher centres. From there, an alpha motor neuron conducts an efferent impulse back to the quadriceps femoris muscle...
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The neuromuscular junction is the synapse that is formed between an alpha motor neuron (α-MN) and the skeletal muscle fiber. In order for a muscle to contract...
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Efferent nerve fiber (redirect from Efferent neuron)
alpha motor neurons (α) – these target extrafusal muscle fibers, and gamma motor neurons (γ) that target intrafusal muscle fibers. Beta motor neurons...
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motor neurons (at the alpha motor neurons from the spinal cord to a muscle), whereas hyperreflexia is often attributed to lesions in the upper motor neurons...
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neurotransmitters inhibit the alpha motor neurons. With diminished inhibition, the resting firing rate of the alpha motor neuron increases, producing rigidity...
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Hebbian theory (redirect from Neurons that fire together wire together)
and motor representations of an action are so strong that the motor neurons start firing to the sound or the vision of the action, and a mirror neuron is...
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Neural pathway (redirect from Neuron pathway)
primarily on its origin (in the primary motor cortex, Brodmann area 4) and termination (onto the alpha motor neurons of the spinal cord).[citation needed]...
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gyrus are transmitted from upper motor neurons, down the corticospinal tract, to lower motor neurons (alpha motor neurons) in the brainstem and ventral horn...
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