A motor neuron (or motoneuron or efferent neuron) is a neuron whose cell body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord, and whose axon...

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...

Alpha (α) motor neurons (also called alpha motoneurons), are large, multipolar lower motor neurons of the brainstem and spinal cord. They innervate extrafusal...

membrane of the smaller motor neurons and therefore larger EPSPs in smaller motoneurons. Burke later demonstrated that there was a graded decrease of both EPSP...

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Beta 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...

multi-nucleated myotube. During or shortly after myotube formation, motoneurons from the neural tube form preliminary contacts with the myotube. The...

sleep, thus allowing the activation of descending pathways inhibiting motoneurons, leading to cataplexy. Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE, Holtzman DM...

secondary set of neurons also causes the opposing muscle to relax. Gamma motoneurons regulate how sensitive the stretch reflex is by tightening or relaxing...

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As well as forming the "signal cables" between sensory neurons and motoneurons, intermediate neurons in the nerve net can also form ganglia that act...

stimulation of the raphe nucleus promotes plateau potentials in spinal motoneurons of the adult turtle". The Journal of Neuroscience. 25 (35): 7993–7999...

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voluntary alpha motoneuron and all of the collective muscle fibers that it controls, known as the effector muscle. The alpha motoneuron communicates with...

be so great it overcomes the excitatory effects on the muscle's alpha motoneurons causing the muscle to suddenly relax. This reflex is also called the...

cortical input or sensory feedback. However, unlike other CPGs, vibrissa motoneurons actively participate in rhythmogenesis by converting tonic serotonergic...

abducens nucleus. However no direct vestibular neuron to medial rectus motoneuron pathway exists. Similar pathways exist for the vertical and torsional...

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brush-like tuft Granule cells, a type of Golgi II neuron Anterior horn cells, motoneurons located in the spinal cord Spindle cells, interneurons that connect widely...

Special visceral efferent fibers (SVE) are the efferent nerve fibers that provide motor innervation to the muscles of the pharyngeal arches in humans,...

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A decrease in peak-to-peak H-reflex amplitude suggests a decrease in motoneuron excitability. Others explain, "H-reflex is considered to be the electrical...

"Impairment of mitochondrial calcium handling in a mtSOD1 cell culture model of motoneuron disease". BMC Neuroscience. 10: 64. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-10-64. PMC 2716351...

Eisen JS (September 2001). "Hedgehog signaling is required for primary motoneuron induction in zebrafish". Development. 128 (18): 3485–3495. doi:10.1242/dev...

During motor activity, serotonin released in synapses that contact motoneurons promotes muscle contraction. During high level of motor activity, the...

Glickman SE (November 1996). "Sexual dimorphism of perineal muscles and motoneurons in spotted hyenas". The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 375 (2): 333–43...

Kajola M, Salmelin R, Hari R (June 1997). "Cortical control of human motoneuron firing during isometric contraction". Journal of Neurophysiology. 77 (6):...