Motor Neurons

"Motor Neurons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Neurons which activate MUSCLE CELLS.

Descriptor ID	D009046
MeSH Number(s)	A08.675.655.500 A11.671.655.500
Concept/Terms	Motor Neurons Motor Neurons Motor Neuron Neuron, Motor Neurons, Motor Motoneurons Motoneuron Motor Neurons, Alpha Motor Neurons, Alpha Alpha Motor Neuron Alpha Motor Neurons Motor Neuron, Alpha Neuron, Alpha Motor Neurons, Alpha Motor Alpha Motorneurons Alpha Motorneuron Motorneuron, Alpha Motorneurons, Alpha

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Motor Neurons".

Anatomy [A]
Nervous System [A08]
Neurons [A08.675]
Neurons, Efferent [A08.675.655]
Motor Neurons [A08.675.655.500]
Cells [A11]
Neurons [A11.671]
Neurons, Efferent [A11.671.655]
Motor Neurons [A11.671.655.500]

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Bar chart showing 103 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2009

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	1	1	2
1998	2	1	3
1999	2	1	3
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	2	3
2002	0	1	1
2003	4	2	6
2004	2	2	4
2005	1	4	5
2006	1	2	3
2007	2	2	4
2008	1	2	3
2009	2	8	10
2010	1	1	2
2011	4	1	5
2012	3	0	3
2013	2	1	3
2014	5	2	7
2015	2	1	3
2016	2	4	6
2017	2	1	3
2018	3	4	7
2019	1	3	4
2020	0	1	1
2021	2	2	4
2022	0	5	5
2023	0	2	2

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Aimino MA, Humenik J, Parisi MJ, Duhart JC, Mosca TJ. SynLight: a bicistronic strategy for simultaneous active zone and cell labeling in the Drosophila nervous system. G3 (Bethesda). 2023 11 01; 13(11).

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Lumpkin CJ, Harris AW, Connell AJ, Kirk RW, Whiting JA, Saieva L, Pellizzoni L, Burghes AHM, Butchbach MER. Evaluation of the orally bioavailable 4-phenylbutyrate-tethered trichostatin A analogue AR42 in models of spinal muscular atrophy. Sci Rep. 2023 06 26; 13(1):10374.

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Nelson AT, Trotti D. Altered Bioenergetics and Metabolic Homeostasis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neurotherapeutics. 2022 07; 19(4):1102-1118.

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Kanda S, Moulton E, Butchbach MER. Effects of Inhibitors of SLC9A-Type Sodium-Proton Exchangers on Survival Motor Neuron 2 (SMN2) mRNA Splicing and Expression. Mol Pharmacol. 2022 08; 102(2):92-105.

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Ferrari V, Cristofani R, Cicardi ME, Tedesco B, Crippa V, Chierichetti M, Casarotto E, Cozzi M, Mina F, Galbiati M, Piccolella M, Carra S, Vaccari T, Nalbandian A, Kimonis V, Fortuna TR, Pandey UB, Gagliani MC, Cortese K, Rusmini P, Poletti A. Pathogenic variants of Valosin-containing protein induce lysosomal damage and transcriptional activation of autophagy regulators in neuronal cells. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2022 08; 48(5):e12818.

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Marchi PM, Marrone L, Brasseur L, Coens A, Webster CP, Bousset L, Destro M, Smith EF, Walther CG, Alfred V, Marroccella R, Graves EJ, Robinson D, Shaw AC, Wan LM, Grierson AJ, Ebbens SJ, De Vos KJ, Hautbergue GM, Ferraiuolo L, Melki R, Azzouz M. C9ORF72-derived poly-GA DPRs undergo endocytic uptake in iAstrocytes and spread to motor neurons. Life Sci Alliance. 2022 09; 5(9).

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Jensen BK, McAvoy KJ, Heinsinger NM, Lepore AC, Ilieva H, Haeusler AR, Trotti D, Pasinelli P. Targeting TNFa produced by astrocytes expressing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked mutant fused in sarcoma prevents neurodegeneration and motor dysfunction in mice. Glia. 2022 07; 70(7):1426-1449.

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Krishnamurthy K, Trotti D, Pasinelli P, Jensen B. Real-Time Fluorescent Measurement of Synaptic Functions in Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. J Vis Exp. 2021 07 16; (173).

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Kirk EA, Christie AD, Knight CA, Rice CL. Motor unit firing rates during constant isometric contraction: establishing and comparing an age-related pattern among muscles. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2021 06 01; 130(6):1903-1914.

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Cicardi ME, Marrone L, Azzouz M, Trotti D. Proteostatic imbalance and protein spreading in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. EMBO J. 2021 05 17; 40(10):e106389.

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