News tagged with motor neurons Related topics: spinal cord ,
neurodegenerative diseases , nerve cells , cells , genetic
mutations In vertebrates, the term motor neuron (or motoneuron)
classically applies to neurons located in the central nervous
system (or CNS) that project their axons outside the CNS and
directly or indirectly control muscles. Motor neuron is often
associated with efferent neuron, primary neuron, or alpha motor
neurons. This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available
under the GNU Free Documentation License. Professor Colin
Pritchard's latest research published in Public Health journal
has found that the sharp rise of dementia and other neurological
deaths in people under 74 cannot be put down to the fact that we
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Structure that edits messenger RNA transcripts defective in two
different forms of motor neuron diseases Amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are
degenerative motor neuron diseases in