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

Symptoms of motor neuron degeneration could start at as early as 3 months of age and lead to muscle atrophy, paralysis and death, often before the child's second birthday.

Early signs of motor neuron disease include weakness and slurred speech. Motor neurons are nerve cells that send electrical output signals to the muscles, affecting the muscles’ ability to function.

ALS is the most common form of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in adults. An early hallmark of ALS is the breakdown of neuromuscular junctions – the connection between the end of a motor nerve and a ...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center developmental biologist Cecilia Moens, PhD recently received a prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. The new grant will allow Moens to better understand the ...

They are the “input” part of the cell. Axon — this long projection carries information from the soma and sends it off to other cells. This is the “output” part of the cell.

The researchers silenced gasdermin E in a mouse model of ALS. They found that it delayed the progression of symptoms and led to protected motor neurons, longer axons, and less overall inflammation.

2) Efferent (centrifugal) fibers bring information to the PNS. Efferents develop in vertebrates from basal plate-derived motor neurons and axons project either through ventral roots (somatic and ...

ALS is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease with poor outcomes, but a pair of new studies may point towards a more optimistic future. In tests in human cells and live mice, scientists ...

It’s not a fitness myth: There really is such a thing as muscle memory, although it may not mean exactly what you think it does. Although people colloquially refer to never forgetting how to ...

A University of Exeter team led by Professor Andrew Crosby and Dr Emma Baple has a long history of research in motor neurone degenerative diseases. The team developed a hypothesis to explain a common ...

Introduction Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are characterized by muscle weakness and/or spastic paralysis and are an etiologically heterogeneous group of disorders resulting from motor neuron ...