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ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2017

Development and aging of human spinal cord circuitries.

Svend Sparre Geertsen, Maria Willerslev-Olsen, Jakob Lorentzen, Jens Bo Nielsen

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Review in Journal of neurophysiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Svend Sparre GeertsenNeural Control of Movement Research Group, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-4497-3616
Maria Willerslev-OlsenNeural Control of Movement Research Group, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark.
Jakob LorentzenNeural Control of Movement Research Group, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark.
Jens Bo NielsenNeural Control of Movement Research Group, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark; jbnielsen@sund.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0001-5568-2916

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neural motor circuitries in the spinal cord receive information from our senses and the rest of the nervous system and translate it into purposeful movements, which allow us to interact with the rest of the world. In this review, we discuss how these circuitries are established during early development and the extent to which they are shaped according to the demands of the body that they control and the environment with which the body has to interact. We also discuss how aging processes and physiological changes in our body are reflected in adaptations of activity in the spinal cord motor circuitries. The complex, multifaceted connectivity of the spinal cord motor circuitries allows them to generate vastly different movements and to adapt their activity to meet new challenges imposed by bodily changes or a changing environment. There are thus plenty of possibilities for adaptive changes in the spinal motor circuitries both early and late in life.

Indexed as

AgingAdaptation, PhysiologicalHumansMotor NeuronsMovementReflex, StretchSpinal Cordagingdevelopmentmotor controlreflexesspinal cord

Identifiers

PMID28566459
PMCPMC5547256

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