Muscle proprioceptive feedback and spinal networks

U Windhorst - Brain research bulletin, 2007 - Elsevier
This review revolves primarily around segmental feedback systems established by muscle
spindle and Golgi tendon organ afferents, as well as spinal recurrent inhibition via Renshaw …

Acrylamide axonopathy revisited

RM LoPachin, CD Balaban, JF Ross - Toxicology and applied …, 2003 - Elsevier
Distal swelling and eventual degeneration of axons in the CNS and PNS have been
considered to be the characteristic neuropathological features of acrylamide (ACR) …

Proliferation and differentiation of progenitor cells throughout the intact adult rat spinal cord

PJ Horner, AE Power, G Kempermann… - Journal of …, 2000 - Soc Neuroscience
The existence of multipotent progenitor populations in the adult forebrain has been widely
studied. To extend this knowledge to the adult spinal cord we have examined the …

Precise control of movement kinematics by optogenetic inhibition of Purkinje cell activity

SA Heiney, J Kim, GJ Augustine… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Purkinje cells (PCs) of the cerebellar cortex are necessary for controlling movement with
precision, but a mechanistic explanation of how the activity of these inhibitory neurons …

Identification of a cellular node for motor control pathways

AJ Levine, CA Hinckley, KL Hilde, SP Driscoll… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The rich behavioral repertoire of animals is encoded in the CNS as a set of motorneuron
activation patterns, also called'motor synergies'. However, the neurons that orchestrate …

A novel biodegradable implant for neuronal rescue and regeneration after spinal cord injury

LN Novikov, LN Novikova, A Mosahebi, M Wiberg… - Biomaterials, 2002 - Elsevier
After spinal cord injury, the severed neuronal pathways fail to regenerate spontaneously.
This study describes a biodegradable implant using poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) fibers as …

Responses to spinal microstimulation in the chronically spinalized rat and their relationship to spinal systems activated by low threshold cutaneous stimulation

MC Tresch, E Bizzi - Experimental brain research, 1999 - Springer
We describe the responses evoked by microstimulation of interneuronal regions of the
spinal cord in unanesthetized rats chronically spinalized at T10–T12. One to three weeks …

Transplantation of specific human astrocytes promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury

SJA Davies, CH Shih, M Noble, M Mayer-Proschel… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Repairing trauma to the central nervous system by replacement of glial support cells is an
increasingly attractive therapeutic strategy. We have focused on the less-studied …

Direct evidence of an extensive GABAergic innervation of the spinal dorsal horn by fibres descending from the rostral ventromedial medulla

M Antal, M Petko, E Polgar, CW Heizmann… - Neuroscience, 1996 - Elsevier
A long line of studies emphasizes the contribution of serotonergic fibres descending from the
rostral ventromedial medulla in the control of spinal nociceptive information processing. A …

Reorganization of descending motor tracts in the rat spinal cord

O Raineteau, K Fouad, FM Bareyre… - European Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Following lesion of the central nervous system (CNS), reinnervation of denervated areas
may occur via two distinct processes: regeneration of the lesioned fibres or/and sprouting …