A spinal interneuron, found in the spinal cord, relays signals between (afferent) sensory neurons, and (efferent) motor neurons. Different classes of...

independently control reflexes. It is also the location of groups of spinal interneurons that make up the neural circuits known as central pattern generators...

Interneurons (also called internuncial neurons, association neurons, connector neurons, or intermediate neurons) are neurons that are not specifically...

the spinal cord, made up of groups of spinal interneurons, that is involved in the rhythmic response of ejaculation. This is known as the spinal generator...

of the spinal cord. The anterior grey column is made up of alpha motor neurons, gamma motor neurons, and small neurons thought to be interneurons. It affects...

Berkowitz A (2008). "Physiology and morphology of shared and specialized spinal interneurons for locomotion and scratching". Journal of Neurophysiology. 99 (6):...

extension of the lower leg. In invertebrates reflex interneurons do not necessarily reside in the spinal cord, for example as in the lateral giant neuron...

output) to the same region of the spinal cord, others projecting into the brain. One target is a set of spinal interneurons that project to motor neurons...

cardinal classes of spinal interneurons. The ventral neurons are considered to be members of the spinal CPG network. Each of these interneuron class can be further...

lower motor neurons. Axons from upper motor neurons synapse onto interneurons in the spinal cord and occasionally directly onto lower motor neurons. The axons...

transcription factor gene that is pivotal in interneuron differentiation in the ventral spinal cord. The spinal interneurons V0 and V1 are derived from progenitor...

University of California, Los Angeles. She studies how the sensory interneurons in the spinal cord are first established during development and then connect...

(July 2008). "Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex". Nature Reviews. Neuroscience. 9 (7): 557–568...

specific movements involving their muscle field. In contrast, spinal cord premotor interneurons had smaller muscle fields and were active through broader...

down the spinal cord to synapse onto the interneuron circuitry of the spinal cord and also directly onto the alpha motor neurons in the spinal cord which...

motor interneurons Lamina IX: hypaxial (body wall muscles), lateral (in limb regions) and medial (back muscles) motor neurons, also phrenic and spinal accessory...

two destinations in the spinal cord: transmission cells that carry the pain signal up to the brain, and inhibitory interneurons that impede transmission...

mono-synaptic pathway. The medium-latency reflex (MLR) utilizes interneurons within the spinal cord and is typically ~80-90 ms. The long-latency reflex (LLR)...

signal which travels back to the spinal cord and synapses (without interneurons) at the level of L3 or L4 in the spinal cord, completely independent of...

spinothalamic tract is a nerve tract in the anterolateral system in the spinal cord. This tract is an ascending sensory pathway to the thalamus. From the...

The central pattern generators are made up of different groups of spinal interneurons. There are four principal types of neural circuits that are responsible...

Renshaw cells are inhibitory interneurons found in the gray matter of the spinal cord, and are associated in two ways with an alpha motor neuron. They...

effect by increasing gamma-aminobutyric acid transmission among spinal interneurons. The blocking effect of amitriptyline on sodium channels may also...

Spinal shock was first explored by Robert Whytt in 1750 as a loss of sensation accompanied by motor paralysis with initial loss but gradual recovery of...

the cerebral cortex that terminates on lower motor neurons and interneurons in the spinal cord, controlling movements of the limbs and trunk. There are...

descends the reticulospinal tract where it innervates motor neurons and spinal interneurons. It is the main auditory tract in the brainstem that connects the...

contractions to glandular output. Interneurons connect neurons to other neurons within the same region of the brain or spinal cord. When multiple neurons are...

information is processed and modified at each level in the chain by interneurons and input from other areas of the nervous system. For example, cells...

spinal cord cells, triggering the sympathetic nervous system and somatic motor responses, while emotions like fear further perpetuate the interneuron...

oblongata, and travel as part of the spinal cord until they synapse with interneurons in the grey column of the spinal cord. There is some variation in terminology...