Motor neuron disease (MND) is a devastating condition that causes progressive muscle weakness by damaging the motor neurons, ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Motor neuron disease (MND) refers to a group of progressive neurological disorders that affect the motor neurons, which are nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement.

A team of Indian American scientists led by Pallavi Gopal are working to learn more about the dynamics of a protein to help ...

Motor neuron articles from across Nature Portfolio Motor neurons project from the central nervous system to innervate muscle cells to either directly or indirectly control their activity. Contact ...

A neuron-specific splice variant of agrin is released by motoneuron growth cones onto muscle, where it binds to a receptor complex and initiates a signaling cascade that causes acetylcholine ...

Neurons are the basic cellular unit of the nervous system. The structure of the neuron includes: Cell body: In the cell body, neurons store genetic material and produce energy to function. Axon: Axons ...

A motor unit refers to a motor neuron, the nerve cell that controls muscular activity, and the muscle fibers that it controls. Whenever a motor unit is active, the motor neuron releases acetylcholine ...

This reflects extensive reduction of functional motor units and is morphologically correlated with loss of MNs in the lateral TA/GC motor pool (8), loss of axons in lumbar ventral nerve roots (Fig. 2 ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness as well as effective treatments.

Mitochondrial abnormalities, or problems in cells' powerhouses, contribute to nerve cell death linked to motor control in MS, ...

Wrist-based accelerometry may be a feasible method for continuous monitoring for individuals with motor neuron disease, according to data published in eBioMedicine.“Actigraphy, which leverages ...