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BMJ, 2011 Diane Sackett experienced the first symptoms of motor neurone disease in 2004, and died in September 2009. Diane’s husband, Brian, was her main carer.
Mohamed Sakel, Brian Sackett
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2002 Abstract Motor neurone disease (MND), or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a neurodegenerative disorder of unknown aetiology. Progressive motor weakness and bulbar dysfunction lead to premature death, usually from respiratory failure. Confirming the diagnosis may initially be difficult until the full clinical features are manifest.
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Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2016 Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), characterized by specific degeneration of spinal motor neurons, is caused by mutations in the survival of motor neuron 1, telomeric (SMN1) gene and subsequent decreased levels of functional SMN. How the deficiency of SMN, a
Chong-Chong Xu +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 Here the authors show in a model of ALS that motor neurons receive stronger inhibitory synaptic inputs than slow motor neurons, and disease progression is associated with specific loss of inhibitory synapses onto fast motor neurons.
Ilary Allodi +4 more
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Large-scale Spatiotemporal Spike Patterning Consistent with Wave Propagation in Motor Cortex [PDF]
, 2015 Aggregate signals in cortex are known to be spatiotemporally organized as propagating waves across the cortical surface, but it remains unclear whether the same is true for spiking activity in individual neurons.
Best, Matthew D. +6 more
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Effects of lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation on expression of growth-associated genes by corticospinal neurons [PDF]
, 2006 Background: Inflammation around cell bodies of primary sensory neurons and retinal ganglion cells enhances expression of neuronal growth-associated genes and stimulates axonal regeneration.
Anderson, PN +5 more
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Selective vulnerability of spinal and cortical motor neuron subpopulations in delta7 SMA mice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Loss of the survival motor neuron gene (SMN1) is responsible for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most common inherited cause of infant mortality. Even though the SMA phenotype is traditionally considered as related to spinal motor neuron loss, it ...
Paolo d'Errico +9 more
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AMPA Receptor Phosphorylation and Synaptic Colocalization on Motor Neurons Drive Maladaptive Plasticity below Complete Spinal Cord Injury. [PDF]
, 2015 Clinical spinal cord injury (SCI) is accompanied by comorbid peripheral injury in 47% of patients. Human and animal modeling data have shown that painful peripheral injuries undermine long-term recovery of locomotion through unknown mechanisms ...
Beattie, Michael S +7 more
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Differential NPY-Y1 Receptor Density in the Motor Cortex of ALS Patients and Familial Model of ALS
Brain Sciences, 2021 Destabilization of faciliatory and inhibitory circuits is an important feature of corticomotor pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). While GABAergic inputs to upper motor neurons are reduced in models of the disease, less understood is the ...
Courtney M. Clark +5 more
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Motor Neurons that Multitask [PDF]
Neuron, 2012 Animals use a form of sensory feedback termed proprioception to monitor their body position and modify the motor programs that control movement. In this issue of Neuron, Wen et al. (2012) provide evidence that a subset of motor neurons function as proprioceptors in C.
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