Neurons are cells ... your body works. Myelinated neurons transmit electrical signals more quickly than the unmyelinated nerves in the body. Myelinated axons are present in sensory neurons and motor ...

Neurons are cells in the body ... and they all have special functions in the brain, spinal cord, and muscles that control the body. The three neuron types (sensory, motor, interneuron) are ...

Doctors diagnosed Carmen Lopez with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) at birth, a rare genetic disorder that affects motor neurons ...

But the voices represent a vast improvement on previous communication technologies and are already improving the lives of people with motor neuron diseases, says Richard Cave, a speech and ...

This work presents an important mouse model for a liver-specific depletion of the Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein, where the liver retains 30% of functional full-length SMN protein. The authors ...

Messages or signals from nerve cells ... with Motor Neuron Diseases may lose the ability to walk or control other movements. These diseases are classified based on whether the loss of function ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and improving ... neural circuit degeneration and restore cell function in a human ...

Regenerative Medicine Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, ...