Motor neurone
Motor Neurone Coupling in Locust Flight
... The following combinations were tried in various experiments: a single elevator was stimulated while a depressor motor neurone was firing; a single depressor motor neurone was stimulated[r] ...
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A GABAB receptor on an identified insect motor neurone
... here indicate that their order of potency on this cockroach motor neurone is as follows: SK&F97541>3-APPA. 3-APA and baclofen (Sattelle et al. 1988) are less active on this neurone. This ...
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The use of Riluzole in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (motor neurone disease)
... Motor neurone disease (MND) is a progressive devastating neurological disorder involving motor neurones in the brain and spinal ...of motor neurone glutamate receptors, excessive ...
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L Glutamate Receptors on the Cell Body Membrane of an Identified Insect Motor Neurone
... L-GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS ON THE CELL BODY MEMBRANE OF AN IDENTIFIED INSECT MOTOR NEURONE BY K.. SATTELLE AFRC Unit of Insect Neurophysiology and Pharmacology, Department of Zoology, Univers[r] ...
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The use of non-invasive ventilation at end of life in patients with motor neurone disease: A qualitative exploration of family carer and health professional experiences
... Motor neurone disease (MND) is one of the most common neurodegenerative conditions of adult life with an estimated annual incidence of 2 in 100,000 and prevalence of 5-7 per 100,000 in most ...
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Feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of dignity therapy for family carers of people with motor neurone disease
... This study examined the effects of dignity therapy on the family carers of people with motor neurone disease (MND). A person with MND endures progressive par- alysis and gradually loses the abilities to ...
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Threshold electrotonus and ion channel dysfunction in motor neurone disease
... The patients with MND were subdivided into those with lower motor neurone (LMN) signs i.e. definite ALS and PMA, and those without i.e. bulbar and PLS. The change in threshold reduction between 1 0 - 2 0 ms ...
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Palliative care for patients with motor neurone disease: current challenges
... Abstract: Motor neurone disease is a progressive disease, and the patient and his/her family face many challenges during the disease progression, with increasing weakness and multiple losses of ...
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Existential loss in the context of motor neurone disease: a hermeneutic phenomenological study
... (motor neurone disease, MND, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, existence, meaning, experience, perspective, view, narrative, story, and stories), services (health care services, MND care services, ...
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Electrical Characteristics of the Membrane Of An Identified Insect Motor Neurone
... The electrical properties of the membrane of an identified locust motor neurone, the fast extensor tibiae in the metathoracic ganglion, have been investigated to determine: the distribut[r] ...
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Learning by the Aplysia Model System: Lack of Correlation Between Gill and Gill Motor Neurone Responses
... The control group also included some preparations in which only the response of the motor neurone increased, which suggests that presynaptic facilitation of the central sensory—motor neu[r] ...
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Incidence of and risk factors for Motor Neurone Disease in UK women: a prospective study
... During our investigations for this report we discovered an error in the WHO ICD-10 alphabetic coding index (Volume 3, page 429), where the code for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy was mistakenly given as code G12.2. ...
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Assistive Communication Tool for Patients with Motor Neurone Disease
... the motor neurone diseases (MND) patients and also for the patients those who have been affected by one side paralysis due to stroke (CerebroVascular ...
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Risk factors for social withdrawal in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Motor Neurone Disease
... or motor neurone disease (MND), is a disease of progressive degeneration of the motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord causing weakness and wasting of the muscles ...
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Clinical aspects of motor neurone disease
... gastroenterology and palliative care may be required later in the disease course. The Motor Neurone Disease Association charity provides support to patients and families in the UK. Along with symptom ...
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Palliative care for patients with motor neurone disease and their bereaved carers: a qualitative study
... Present findings illuminated bereaved carers ’ perceptions that patients with MND often experienced variances in the holistic care delivered by healthcare professionals,... with differin[r] ...
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Comparison of slow larval and fast adult muscle innervated by the same motor neurone
... The larval muscle fibres that are innervated by the dlx motor neurones and that developmentally precede the adult dorsal longitudinal muscle fibres have the fine structure characteristic[r] ...
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Motor neurone coordination and sensory modulation in the feeding system of the mollusc Pleurobranchaea californica
... This output corresponds in essential features to rhythmic feeding behaviour; namely, alternating bursts of spikes occur in motor neurones that innervate antagonistic muscles of the bucca[r] ...
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Motor neurone disease twin study using death discordant twins
... In contrast to several previous case-control studies into M N D (Felm us et al 1976, K urtzke & Beebe 1980, Provinciali & Giovagnoli 1990, G unnarsson & Palm 1984), the index twins were not reported to ...
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Impulse Patterns in the Flight Motor Neurones Of Bombus Californicus and Oncopeltus Fasciatus
... Temporal and phasic properties of Bombus motor neurone discharge, a A histogram of the interspike intervals of a left dorso-longitudinal unit recorded during flight, 6 A histogram of the[r] ...
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