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Neurons, Efferent
Known as:
Efferent Neurons
, Efferent Neuron
, Motor Neurons
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A neuron that sends impulses from the central nervous system to skeletal muscles, glands, and visceral organs.
National Institutes of Health
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Autonomic nerve structure
Motor Neurons
Microbiological
Nerve Tissue
Neuroeffector Junction
Process of secretion
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Broader (3)
Nerve
Peripheral Nervous System
neuron type
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Review
2010
Review
2010
Pathophysiology of sleep apnea.
J. Dempsey
,
S. Veasey
,
B. Morgan
,
C. O'Donnell
Physiological Reviews
2010
Corpus ID: 25470736
Sleep-induced apnea and disordered breathing refers to intermittent, cyclical cessations or reductions of airflow, with or…
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Induced pluripotent stem cells from a spinal muscular atrophy patient
A. Ebert
,
Junying Yu
,
+4 authors
C. Svendsen
Nature
2009
Corpus ID: 4399268
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most common inherited forms of neurological disease leading to infant mortality. Patients…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Onset and Progression in Inherited ALS Determined by Motor Neurons and Microglia
S. Boillée
,
K. Yamanaka
,
+5 authors
D. Cleveland
Science
2006
Corpus ID: 1527547
Dominant mutations in superoxide dismutase cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive paralytic disease…
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Review
2006
Review
2006
ALS: A Disease of Motor Neurons and Their Nonneuronal Neighbors
S. Boillée
,
C. V. Velde
,
D. Cleveland
Neuron
2006
Corpus ID: 12968143
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Inkjet printing of viable mammalian cells.
Tao Xu
,
J. Jin
,
C. Gregory
,
J. Hickman
,
T. Boland
Biomaterials
2005
Corpus ID: 15114071
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a distal axonopathy: evidence in mice and man
L. Fischer
,
D. Culver
,
+6 authors
J. Glass
Experimental Neurology
2004
Corpus ID: 14247599
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Wild-Type Nonneuronal Cells Extend Survival of SOD1 Mutant Motor Neurons in ALS Mice
A. Clement
,
M. D. Nguyen
,
+11 authors
D. Cleveland
Science
2003
Corpus ID: 30429105
The most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease affecting adult motor neurons, is caused…
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Review
2001
Review
2001
Spinal and supraspinal factors in human muscle fatigue.
S. Gandevia
Physiological Reviews
2001
Corpus ID: 8826718
Muscle fatigue is an exercise-induced reduction in maximal voluntary muscle force. It may arise not only because of peripheral…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Two Critical Periods of Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Required for the Specification of Motor Neuron Identity
J. Ericson
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S. Morton
,
A. Kawakami
,
H. Roelink
,
T. Jessell
Cell
1996
Corpus ID: 11578260
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CELL SIZE IN SPINAL MOTONEURONS.
E. Henneman
,
G. Somjen
,
D. Carpenter
Journal of Neurophysiology
1965
Corpus ID: 2302489
SINCE THE BEGINNINGS OF NEUROHISTOLOGY it has been recognized that neurons within the central nervous system vary widely in size…
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