A motor neuron (or motoneuron), also known as efferent neuron is a neuron whose cell body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord...

A descending neuron is a neuron that conveys signals from the brain to neural circuits in the spinal cord (vertebrates) or ventral nerve cord (invertebrates)...

James O.; Williams, S. Mark (9 May 2018). "Damage to Descending Motor Pathways: The Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome". Archived from the original on 3 May 2018...

A gamma motor neuron (γ motor neuron), also called gamma motoneuron, or fusimotor neuron, is a type of lower motor neuron that takes part in the process...

ventral axons as well as “descending” inhibition. The hyperpolarization of Renshaw cells by afferent and descending neurons have been shown to be caused...

tract. The descending tracts are of motor information. Descending tracts involve two neurons: the upper motor neuron, and lower motor neuron. A nerve signal...

O.; Williams, S. Mark (1 January 2001). Damage to Descending Motor Pathways: The Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome. Sinauer Associates. Llinas RR, Walton KD...

An upper motor neuron lesion (also known as pyramidal insufficiency) Is an injury or abnormality that occurs in the neural pathway above the anterior horn...

(ARAS), ascending pathways to the cerebral cortex, and the descending reticular system, descending pathways (reticulospinal tracts) to the spinal cord. Due...

interior of a neuron more positive relative to the outside, often initiating an action potential if a threshold is reached. Descending neuron A neuron that originates...

neurological conditions, particularly associated with upper motor neuron lesions involving descending motor pathways, and in many cases is accompanied by spasticity...

(from Latin nocere 'to harm or hurt'; lit. 'pain receptor') is a sensory neuron that responds to damaging or potentially damaging stimuli by sending "possible...

output. By perturbing neurons at various places in the sensorimotor system, researchers have learned about the role of descending neurons in eliciting stereotyped...

Alpha (α) motor neurons (also called alpha motoneurons), are large, multipolar lower motor neurons of the brainstem and spinal cord. They innervate extrafusal...

endorphin neurons in the spinal cord act on receptors to decrease the conduction of pain signals from the spinal cord to higher brain centers. Descending neurons...

signals. It contains ascending and descending neurons that relay information to and from the brain, motor neurons that project into the body and synapse...

molecule secreted by a neuron to affect another cell across a synapse. The cell receiving the signal, or target cell, may be another neuron, but could also be...

an elementary electroclinical manifestation of epilepsy involving descending neurons, whose spatial (spread) or temporal (self-sustained repetition) amplification...

receptor site on the correct neuron. The light chain domain cleaves the VAMP protein once it arrives in the inhibitory neuron cytosol. There are four main...

numbing) by activating descending pathways that directly and indirectly inhibit nociceptors in the laminae of the spinal cord. Descending pathways also activate...

A cholinergic neuron is a nerve cell which mainly uses the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) to send its messages. Many neurological systems are cholinergic...

muscular contraction, but not passive stretch. Upper motor neuron lesions which damage the descending pathways down to the spinal cord may cause increase in...

duodenal flexure, the end of the descending part.: 274  The pancreatic duct and common bile duct enter the descending duodenum, through the major duodenal...

Sunderland, Mass: Sinauer Assoc. 2001. pp. Damage to Descending Motor Pathways: The Upper Motor Neuron Syndrome. ISBN 0-87893-742-0. Archived from the original...

driven either by mechanisms within individual neurons or by interactions between neurons. In individual neurons, oscillations can appear either as oscillations...

approximately 14–16 billion neurons, and the estimated number of neurons in the cerebellum is 55–70 billion. Each neuron is connected by synapses to several...

Information in the posterior descending pathway (also referred to as the vocal production or motor pathway) descends from HVC to RA, and then from RA...

2016). "Long-Distance Descending Spinal Neurons Ensure Quadrupedal Locomotor Stability". Neuron. 92 (5): 1063–1078. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.10.032. PMID 27866798...

cardiac output, and immune system function. The formation of sympathetic neurons being observed at embryonic stage of life and its development during aging...

spinal cord, relays signals between (afferent) sensory neurons, and (efferent) motor neurons. Different classes of spinal interneurons are involved in...