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Neurons, Efferent

Known as: Efferent Neurons, Efferent Neuron, Motor Neurons 
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 structureMotor Neurons
MicrobiologicalNerve TissueNeuroeffector JunctionProcess of secretion

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NervePeripheral Nervous Systemneuron type

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Review
2010
Review
2010
Pathophysiology of sleep apnea.
Sleep-induced apnea and disordered breathing refers to intermittent, cyclical cessations or reductions of airflow, with or… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Induced pluripotent stem cells from a spinal muscular atrophy patient
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most common inherited forms of neurological disease leading to infant mortality. Patients… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Onset and Progression in Inherited ALS Determined by Motor Neurons and Microglia
Dominant mutations in superoxide dismutase cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive paralytic disease… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
ALS: A Disease of Motor Neurons and Their Nonneuronal Neighbors
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Inkjet printing of viable mammalian cells.
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a distal axonopathy: evidence in mice and man
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Wild-Type Nonneuronal Cells Extend Survival of SOD1 Mutant Motor Neurons in ALS Mice
The most common form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease affecting adult motor neurons, is caused… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Spinal and supraspinal factors in human muscle fatigue.
Muscle fatigue is an exercise-induced reduction in maximal voluntary muscle force. It may arise not only because of peripheral… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Two Critical Periods of Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Required for the Specification of Motor Neuron Identity
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
FUNCTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CELL SIZE IN SPINAL MOTONEURONS.
SINCE THE BEGINNINGS OF NEUROHISTOLOGY it has been recognized that neurons within the central nervous system vary widely in size… 
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