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motor neuron

NOUN
  1. a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord

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  • The medial stripe, nearest the midline, which becomes the ventral region of the neural tube, gives rise to motor neurons, whereas the lateral stripes give rise to interneurons and sensory neurons.
  • He survived a near fatal heart attack and subsequent cardiac surgery, only to succumb to motor neurone disease.
  • She had helped to nurse one of her oldest friends while he died from motor neurone disease. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
  • I think he said that those opposing the creation of 'human admixed embryos' were, in effect wanting to kill future sufferers from illnesses such as Parkinson's Disease and Motor Neurone Disease. Victory for the scientists
  • This system shows habituation - that is the response of the motor neurons to repeated stimulation of the sensory neurons decreases.
  • Proprioceptor afferents project to the phrenic motor neurons and affect their firing rate.
  • We're in our 40s and she has motor neurone disease and is quite bad. The Sun
  • A geneticist, he researched in the fields of muscular dystrophy and motor neurone disease. Times, Sunday Times
  • At early stages of development, single muscle fibers are innervated by axon terminals from several different motor neurons.
  • “We found that if we just transplanted motor neurons into the spinal cord and did nothing else, then the surrounding neighborhood in the spinal cord—the white matter surrounding the spinal fluid, which is full of other, healthy myelinated axons—would see these motor neurons as foreign and reject them,” Kerr says. The Autoimmune Epidemic
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