How to Use motor neuron in a Sentence

motor neuron

noun

• The motor neurons weren't changed by being exposed to the RNA.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• Those months may be crucial: One study showed that in the sickest patients, 90% of motor neurons are destroyed by the age of 6 months.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• This patient showed clear signs of motor neuron disease, which occurs in up to 15% of FTD cases.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2010
• These proteins play a large part in the formation of motor neuron diseases.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 14 June 2022
• There is no need, though, to have each of the half million muscle fibers in your biceps controlled by a separate motor neuron.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• Phillips lives with a genetic condition that damages the motor neurons in his spinal cord.
  — Harold Pollack, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
• Pruitt, who has a rare motor neuron disease called Kennedy’s disease, uses an electric scooter to get around and lives in a mobile home.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
• Roughly once a day in the United States, a child is born with a fatal genetic disorder that destroys motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• The spread of the disease is really a consequence of how cells around the nerves (astrocytes and microglial cells) respond to the dying motor neurons.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
• The four types of SMA are ranked by severity and related to how much motor neuron protein a person’s cells can still produce.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• Unable to pinpoint a cause, researchers have focused on understanding the process that kills the motor neurons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• The axon from one spinal cord motor neuron branches and makes a small cluster of muscle fibers contract together.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• Zolgensma delivers a healthy copy of the human SMN gene to a patient’s motor neurons in a single treatment.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2019
• Doctors practicing medicine today were taught that ALS is a disease of motor neurons.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
• Intriguingly, such a circuit is reminiscent of the way motor neurons control movement from the spinal cord.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2018
• Now researchers believe the problem is not actually with the muscle itself, but with the motor neurons that send signals to it, which become hyperactive.
  — Cara Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The motor neuron disease is usually fatal just a few years after diagnosis—but the genius physicist survived for decades.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The drug, injected directly into the cerebrospinal fluid, binds to the RNA for a second motor neuron gene that, like the gene targeted by Zolgensma, encodes the protein missing in the condition.
  — Lydia Denworth, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2020
• As a 21-year-old student at Camdridge University, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease and was given only two years to live.
  — Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Several gene switches found in tetrapods, which are important for the development and function of motor neurons that control tetrapods limbs, are active in those controlling the skates’ fins too, the scientists found.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
• Commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or motor neuron disease, the condition damages the nerves that control movement and results in paralysis.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• Hawking famously suffered from motor neuron disease, with which he was diagnosed at age 21.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
• The authors also dissected out both sensory and motor neurons from unsensitized animals and exposed these to the RNA.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• This module performs the difficult task of identifying the individual motor neuron pulses (also called spikes) that make up the EMG signals.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2023
• Svendsen is more optimistic about his team’s work involving human tests of a novel stem cell approach to treat ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease in which cells that transmit messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles wither or die.
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
• The number of synaptic connections (called varicosities) between the sensory and the motor neuron increased rapidly after 5HT 'training'.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2014
• The dearth of the protein debilitates motor neurons, which are responsible for relaying messages to muscles, and creates a cascade of issues that culminates in muscle weakness.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 7 Feb. 2020
• Hawking, who suffered from the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is survived by his three children.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• To address this issue, the research team sees potential in genetically modifying the muscle cells to contain motor neurons.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 30 May 2018
• With these parameters in hand, the decoding module can take new EMG signals and extract the individual motor neuron activity in real time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024