Internal receptors respond to changes inside the body. For example, they can detect changes in the blood’s chemical properties or respond to potentially damaging stimuli by causing the perception of ...

preventing healthy cells from reading the messages they ... Drugs that "switch on" vitamin A in the body may also help stave off conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND). The largest-ever ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting ... and muscles that control the body. The three neuron types (sensory, motor, interneuron) are separated into two categories ...

SMA is an inherited condition that affects specific motor neurons, namely the nerve cells in the spinal cord ... make a protein called survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. This protein is critical ...

According to Dr Matilda Wendo, a Neurologist at The Aga Khan Hospital, MNDs are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurons, the cells that control skeletal muscle ...

Scientists have developed a new method that can grow motor neurons from skin cells, which may serve as a platform for ALS ...

"So, we're using direct conversion, where instead of going through an iPSC intermediate, we're going directly from a somatic cell to a motor neuron." Galloway's research group and others have ...

Although a motor neuron pool innervating one muscle represents a tightly clustered cell body aggregate in a defined position in the spinal cord in wild types, corresponding cell bodies in Foxp1 ...

Activating a protein called potassium channel Kv2.1 may help improve motor function in SMA, making it a potential SMA ...

Otuoma died after a long battle with Motor Neurone ... to nerve cells in the brainstem and spinal cord (lower motor neurons), which then send signals to muscles throughout the body.