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    Interneurons (also called internuncial neurons, association neurons, connector neurons, or intermediate neurons) are neurons that are not specifically...
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    A spinal interneuron, found in the spinal cord, relays signals between (afferent) sensory neurons, and (efferent) motor neurons. Different classes of...
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    cells of the brain that function by communicating with other neurons and interneurons (via synapses), in neural circuits and larger brain networks. The two...
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  • The lateral giant interneuron (LG) is an interneuron in the abdominal nerve cord of crayfish, lobsters, shrimp of the order Decapoda and their relatives...
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    is expressed in Purkinje cells and molecular layer interneurons. In the hippocampus, PV+ interneurons are subdivided into basket, axo-axonic, and bistratified...
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  • The medial giant interneuron (MG) is an interneuron in the abdominal nerve cord of crayfish. It is part of the system that controls the caridoid escape...
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    needed] However, activation of the inhibitory interneurons varies: large-diameter fibers excite the interneuron, which ultimately reduces transmission cell...
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    effector muscle. By contrast, in polysynaptic reflex pathways, one or more interneurons connect afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) signals. All but the...
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  • glutamate hypothesis. Other theories include the specific dysfunction of interneurons, abnormalities in the immune system, abnormalities in myelination, and...
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    Chandelier cells or chandelier neurons are a subset of GABAergic cortical interneurons. They are described as parvalbumin-containing and fast-spiking to distinguish...
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    either activity in a presynaptic neuron or from a separate modulatory interneuron, creating synaptic depression or strengthening. Thus, Hebbian or homosynaptic...
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    In the anatomy of the eye, amacrine cells are interneurons in the retina. They are named from Greek a– 'non' makr– 'long' and in– 'fiber', because of their...
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    In neuroscience, Golgi cells are the most abundant inhibitory interneurons found within the granular layer of the cerebellum. Golgi cells can be found...
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  • 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...
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    GABAergic interneurons of the brain, found throughout different regions of the cortex and cerebellum. Basket cells are multipolar GABAergic interneurons that...
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  • research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wurtman co-founded Interneuron Pharmaceuticals (later known as Indevus) and held the patent for dexfenfluramine...
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  • through the dorsal root into the spinal cord to synapse on Ib inhibitory interneurons that in turn terminate directly on the motor neurons that innervate the...
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    central pattern generator in the spinal cord, made up of groups of spinal interneurons, that is involved in the rhythmic response of ejaculation. This is known...
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    motor neurons, gamma motor neurons, and small neurons thought to be interneurons. It affects the skeletal muscles. The posterior grey column receives...
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    (GAD1), in addition to abnormalities in brain morphometry. The subsets of interneurons that are abnormal in schizophrenia are responsible for the synchronizing...
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  • muscle. This inhibition is accomplished by the actions of an inhibitor interneuron in the spinal cord. The afferent of the muscle spindle bifurcates in...
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    lateral giant interneurons and a pair of medial giant interneurons, and Wiersma found that stimulating just one lateral giant interneuron (LG or LGI) or...
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    likewise removed from the US market in 2010. The drug was developed by Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, a company co-founded by Richard Wurtman, aimed at marketing...
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  • amacrine cells are a type of amacrine cells found in the retina. These interneurons are notable for co-releasing acetylcholine and GABA. List of distinct...
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    to control everything from muscle contractions to glandular output. Interneurons connect neurons to other neurons within the same region of the brain...
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    a 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...
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  • Generation, a German environmental organization Lateral giant interneuron, an interneuron in crayfish Binary logarithm, with base 2 Common logarithm, with...
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    axonal transport to the CNS inhibitory interneurons Transcytosis from the axon into the inhibitory interneurons Action Temperature- and pH-mediated translocation...
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    migration does not involve interactions with radial glial cells; instead the interneurons migrate perpendicularly through the radial glial cells to reach their...
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    rights to trospium chloride to Interneuron in 1999 and Interneuron ran clinical trials in the US to win FDA approval. Interneuron changed its name to Indevus...
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