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Spinal Cord

Known as: Myelons, Spinal Cords, Spinali, Medulla 
A column of nerve tissue that runs from the base of the skull down the back. It is surrounded by three protective membranes, and is enclosed within… 
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AmyeliaBenign Cerebellar NeoplasmsBenign Intracranial MeningiomaBenign neoplasm of spinal cord

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Spinal Cord DiseasesSpinothalamic TractsStructure of posterior gray horn of spinal cordVentral Roots

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Review
2006
Review
2006
Locomotor circuits in the mammalian spinal cord.
Intrinsic spinal networks, known as central pattern generators (CPGs), control the timing and pattern of the muscle activity… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Motor training induces experience-specific patterns of plasticity across motor cortex and spinal cord.
The motor cortex and spinal cord possess the remarkable ability to alter structure and function in response to differential motor… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Adult Spinal Cord Stem Cells Generate Neurons after Transplantation in the Adult Dentate Gyrus
The adult rat spinal cord contains cells that can proliferate and differentiate into astrocytes and oligodendroglia in situ… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Neurotrophin-3 enhances sprouting of corticospinal tract during development and after adult spinal cord lesion
THE number of neurotrophic factors found in the central nervous system is rapidly growing, but their functions in vivo are… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Decreased glutamate transport by the brain and spinal cord in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a chronic degenerative neurologic disorder characterized by the death of motor… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Quantitative autoradiographic mapping of serotonin receptors in the rat brain. I. Serotonin-1 receptors
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Immunohistochemical identification of neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus that project to the medulla or to the spinal cord in the rat
A method that allows the concurrent localization of an antigen and a retrogradely transported fluorescent dye (true blue) was… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Distribution of serotonin-immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the rat—Cell bodies and terminals
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus: Cytoarchitectonic subdivisions and organization of projections to the pituitary, dorsal vagal complex, and spinal cord as demonstrated by retrograde…
Experiments using two retrogradely transported fluorescent dyes (bisbenzimide‐true blue, and Evans blue‐granular blue) were… 
Highly Cited
1952
Highly Cited
1952
The cytoarchitectonic organization of the spinal cord in the cat
  • B. Rexed
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1952
  • Corpus ID: 42584106
Nervous centers, such as the cerebral cortex, the lateral geniculate body, the thalamus, etc., can generally be described as… 
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