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Motor Neurons
Known as:
Neurons, Motor
, Neuron, Motor
, Motoneurons
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An efferent neuron that sends impulses from the central nervous system to skeletal muscles.
National Institutes of Health
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1998
1998
Modulation of sensorimotor pathways associated with gain changes in a posture-control network of an insect
W. Stein
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A. E. Sauer
Journal of Comparative Physiology
1998
Corpus ID: 22345248
Abstract The resistance reflex in the femur-tibia joint of stick insects shows a great variability in its strength which allows…
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Review
1994
Review
1994
Equine motor neuron disease
M. Prendergast
,
H. Bassett
,
J. Cummings
The Veterinary Record
1994
Corpus ID: 36831801
This article reviews the subject of equine motor neuron disease, a neurodegenerative disease of horses. The authors discuss…
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Absence of somatotopic projection of muscle afferents onto motoneurons of same muscle.
B. McKeon
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S. Gandevia
,
D. Burke
Journal of Neurophysiology
1984
Corpus ID: 20783574
During weak voluntary contractions, muscle afferents from a restricted region of the tibialis anterior of humans were activated…
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1984
1984
Motor organization in pharynx of Helix pomatia.
M. Peters
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U. Altrup
Journal of Neurophysiology
1984
Corpus ID: 25483753
Identified motor neurons in the buccal ganglia of Helix pomatia and pharynx muscles innervated by them were studied with…
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1984
1984
Lateral asymmetry of H-reflex recovery curves in cat: evidence for a spinal motor asymmetry.
U. Tan
International Journal of Neuroscience
1984
Corpus ID: 28398641
Recovery curve of the Hoffmann reflex from the left and right sides was studied in lightly anesthetized cats before and after…
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1982
Highly Cited
1982
Segmental giant: evidence for a driver neuron interposed between command and motor neurons in the crayfish escape system.
A. Roberts
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F. Krasne
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G. Hagiwara
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J. Wine
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A. P. Kramer
Journal of Neurophysiology
1982
Corpus ID: 9001532
1. The giant command neurons for tailflip escape behavior in crayfish have been thought to excite the nongiant fast flexor…
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1977
1977
Neuronal organization of crayfish escape behavior: inhibition of giant motoneuron via a disynaptic pathway from other motoneurons.
J. Wine
Journal of Neurophysiology
1977
Corpus ID: 40655587
1. A circuit that produces a 70-100 ms IPSP in the crayfish giant motoneuron is described. The IPSP is produced by a disynaptic…
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1975
1975
Glucocorticoids and mammalian motor nerve excitability.
W. Riker
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T. Baker
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M. Okamoto
Archives of Neurology
1975
Corpus ID: 43419525
Short-term treatment of cats with high doses of triamcinolone and related steroids strikingly increased the capacity of soleus…
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Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Identification of the somata of common inhibitory motoneurons in the metathoracic ganglion of the cockroach.
K. Pearson
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C. Fourtner
Canadian Journal of Zoology
1973
Corpus ID: 40843387
The somata of the three common inhibitory neurons known to innervate many muscles of the metathoracic legs of the cockroach have…
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1961
Highly Cited
1961
Accommodation in spinal motoneurons of the cat.
K. Sasaki
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T. Otani
The Japanese Journal of Physiology
1961
Corpus ID: 31126409
1. Single spinal motoneurons of the cat were directly stimulated with linearly increasing currents flowing through an…
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