Legs and arms perform very different functions. Our legs are responsible primarily for repetitive locomotion, like walking and running. Our arms and hands, by contrast, must be able to execute many ...

A $6.25 million National Institutes of Health grant supports Rice U. engineers optimizing a neural probe array that can record the activity of spinal cord neurons as bodies move and behave.

"If you look at images of spinal cord cross-sections, ... It turns out that although V2a neurons are present throughout the spinal column, not all of them express CHX10 at the same levels.

The spinal cord plays a significant role in pain processes, so identifying which spinal neurons are directly involved with pain-signal relay could open the door to better pain-management therapies.

“Currently, regenerating injured neurons in the spinal cord is a real challenge,” says Professor Marco Terenzio, from Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

The cover art illustrates these findings using a classical world atlas rendered as a spinal cord cross-section, where skeletal and autonomic motor neurons reside on two main continents but extend ...

In rats, the spinal cord contains proerectile autonomic motoneurons destined to the penile tissue and its vasculature, and somatic motoneurons destined to the perineal striated muscles. It ...

Researchers have generated functionally mature motor neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells, which are engineered from adult somatic cells and can differentiate into most other cell types. Share: ...

MIT scientists convert skin cells into neurons, could transform brain, spinal cord repair. Story by Srishti Gupta ... we’re going directly from a somatic cell to a motor neuron. ...

image: V2a neurons (smaller, faint blue) in the lumbar region of the spinal cord, shown alongside motor neurons (larger, bright blue). view more Credit: Salk Institute Legs and arms perform very ...