Gamma (g) motor neurons

Gamma (g) motor neurons

Class of spinal motor neurons specifically concerned with the regulation of muscle spindle length; these neurons innervate the intrafusal muscle fibres of the spindle.

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gamma (γ) motor neurons

Biology; Neuroscience

Class of spinal motor neurons specifically concerned with the regulation of muscle spindle length; these neurons innervate the intrafusal muscle fibers of the spindle.

gamma (g) motor neurons

Biology; Neuroscience

Class of spinal motor neurons specifically concerned with the regulation of muscle spindle length; these neurons innervate the intrafusal muscle fibers of the spindle.

gamma-efferent motor neuron

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Motor neurons which activate the contractile regions of intrafusal skeletal muscle fibers, thus adjusting the sensitivity of the muscle spindles to stretch. Gamma motor neurons ...

gamma efferent motor neurons

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Motor neurons which activate the contractile regions of intrafusal skeletal muscle fibers, thus adjusting the sensitivity of the muscle spindles to stretch. Gamma motor neurons ...

medial longitudinal fasciculus

Biology; Neuroscience

Axon tract that carries excitatory projections from the abducens nucleus to the contralateral oculomotor nucleus; important in coordinating conjugate eye movements.

commissures

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Axon tracts that cross the midline of the brain. See also anterior commissure.

postganglionic axons

Biology; Neuroscience

Axons that link visceral motor neurons in autonomic ganglia to their targets.

climbing fibers

Biology; Neuroscience

Axons that originate in the inferior olive, ascend through the inferior cerebellar peduncle, and make terminal arborizations that invest the dendritic tree of Purkinje cells.

saccades

Biology; Neuroscience

Ballistic, conjugate eye movements that change the point of foveal fixation.

olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs)

Biology; Neuroscience

Bipolar neurons in olfactory epithelium that contain receptors for odorants.

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