Whither motoneurons?

Brain Research

Volumn 1409, Issue , 2011, Pages 93-103

  Brownstone, Robert M ^a   Stuart, Douglas G ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Embryonic stem cell; Modeling; Motoneuron disease; Optogenetics; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AGING; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXERCISE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; STEM CELL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL STEM CELLS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052030800     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.06.008     Document Type: Review

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