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Motor Neurons

Known as: Neurons, Motor, Neuron, Motor, Motoneurons 
An efferent neuron that sends impulses from the central nervous system to skeletal muscles.
National Institutes of Health

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Anterior Horn CellsEfferent PathwaysMicrobiologicalMotor Neuron Disease

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Motor Neurons, AlphaPeripheral motor neuron

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NeuronsNeurons, Efferentneuromuscular system

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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Effects of Intrathecal α1- and α2-Noradrenergic Agonists and Norepinephrine on Locomotion in Chronic Spinal Cats
Chau, Connie, Hugues Barbeau, and Serge Rossignol. Effects of intrathecal α1- and α2-noradrenergic agonists and norepinephrine on… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Issues & Opinions: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Lower motor neuron disease spreading to upper motor neurons
Contrary to the recently reemphasized notion that the primary neuron involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in alpha-motoneurons produced during fictive locomotion by stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region.
We tested the hypothesis that stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR) activates polysynaptic pathways that… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Muscle reinnervation—III. Motoneuron sprouting capacity, enhancement by exogenous gangliosides
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Factors influencing motoneuron rhythmic firing: results from a voltage-clamp study.
1. The rhythmic firing properties of cat lumbar motoneurons were determined by intracellular injection of constant-current pulses… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Cell death of motoneurons in the chick embryo spinal cord. II. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of degenerationin the ventral root, including evidence for axon outgrowth and limb innervation…
Development of the ventral roots in the caudal half of the chick lumbar spinal cord (segments 26‐29) was studied by electron… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
The morphology of motoneurons and dorsal root fibers in the frog's spinal cord
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Dendritic reorganization of an identified motoneuron during metamorphosis of the tobacco hornworm moth
In the tobacco hornworm, many larval motoneurons become respecified and supply new muscles in the adult. Changes in the… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Sprouting and degeneration of mammalian motor axons in normal and de-afferentated skeletal muscle
  • D. BarkerM. Ip
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London…
  • 1966
  • Corpus ID: 32344356
The occurrence of collateral and ultraterminal sprouting by skeletomotor and fusimotor axons is described in teased, silver… 
Highly Cited
1945
Highly Cited
1945
THE REGENERATIVE CYCLE OF MOTONEURONS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PHOSPHATASE ACTIVITY
1. The regenerative cycle of motoneurons after axon amputation is described, and an attempt made to correlate morphological and… 
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