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ArticleAdvances in neurobiology2022

Diversity of Mammalian Motoneurons and Motor Units.

Marcin Bączyk, Marin Manuel, Francesco Roselli, Daniel Zytnicki

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Article in Advances in neurobiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marcin BączykDepartment of Neurobiology, Poznań University of Physical Education, Poznań, Poland.
Marin ManuelSPPIN - Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France. marin.manuel@neurobio.org.
Francesco RoselliDepartment of Neurology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Daniel ZytnickiSPPIN - Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.
SPPIN - Saints-Pères Paris Institute for NeurosciencesGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although they share the common function of controlling muscle fiber contraction, spinal motoneurons display a remarkable diversity. Alpha-motoneurons are the "final common pathway", which relay all the information from spinal and supraspinal centers and allow the organism to interact with the outside world by controlling the contraction of muscle fibers in the muscles. On the other hand, gamma-motoneurons are specialized motoneurons that do not generate force and instead specifically innervate muscle fibers inside muscle spindles, which are proprioceptive organs embedded in the muscles. Beta-motoneurons are hybrid motoneurons that innervate both extrafusal and intrafusal muscle fibers. Even among alpha-motoneurons, there exists an exquisite diversity in terms of motoneuron electrical and molecular properties, physiological and structural properties of their neuromuscular junctions, and molecular and contractile properties of the innervated muscle fibers. This diversity, across species, across muscles, and across muscle fibers in a given muscle, underlie the vast repertoire of movements that one individual can perform.

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Motor NeuronsMuscle ContractionAnimalsHumansMammalsMusclesContractile propertiesElectrophysiologyMotoneuronMotor unitMuscle fibersNeuromuscular junctionsPhysiological type

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PMID36066824
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