Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...

Motor neurons are cells in your brain and spinal cord that help you walk, talk, and eat. Learn how damage to these cells could affect your movement and what your doctor can do to treat it.

In addition to visceral motor neurons, the researchers also classify subtypes of alpha, gamma and the elusive beta motor neurons that innervate skeletal motor neurons.

Single gene regulates motor neurons in spinal cord Date: September 12, 2010 Source: NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine Summary: In a surprising and unexpected ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...

CHIT1-positive microglia were found to preferentially localize around motor neurons, with elevated levels observed in the cerebrospinal fluid and serum of aged monkeys and elderly individuals.

A new technique developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helps convert skin cells into neurons without needing to transform them first into stem cells.

Fenofibrate, an FDA-approved drug used to reduce cholesterol levels, causes sensory neurons in the spine following spinal cord injury to regrow twice as fast as with a placebo treatment. The results ...

In healthy mice, motor neurons can grow out from the spinal cord and navigate through surrounding tissues to reach distant muscle groups.