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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A nerve cell found entirely within the central nervous system that acts as a link between sensory neurons and motor neurons.

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  • noun anatomy A multipolar neuron that connects afferent and efferent neurons
  • adjective Between neurons

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  • They discovered that the “molecular layer interneuron” functions as a “gatekeeper”, controlling electrical signals that leave the cerebellum.

    August « 2009 « The War of Cycling 2009

  • They discovered that the “molecular layer interneuron” functions as a “gatekeeper”, controlling electrical signals that leave the cerebellum.

    It’s like riding a bicycle. « The War of Cycling 2009

  • Loss of executive inhibitory influences may explain more violent or spontaneous out of control behavior, autism of all forms, and onset and progression of many neurological disorders from cortical to midbrain motor interneuron Parkinson's to ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and peripheral motor and sensory neuropathic disorders.

    ASPARTAME IS NEUROTOXIC GENOTOXIC MOLECULAR FOOD & VACCINE PHARMACO-GENOCIDE 2008

  • Electrophysiological measurements of brain activity play an important role in understanding signal propagation through individual neurons and neuronal networks, but existing technologies are relatively crude: Micropipette electrodes poked into cells are invasive and harmful, and microfabricated electrode arrays are too bulky to detect activity at the level of individual axons and dendrites, the neuronal projections responsible for electrical signal propagation and interneuron communication.

    Wired Zoe Brain 2006

  • Electrophysiological measurements of brain activity play an important role in understanding signal propagation through individual neurons and neuronal networks, but existing technologies are relatively crude: Micropipette electrodes poked into cells are invasive and harmful, and microfabricated electrode arrays are too bulky to detect activity at the level of individual axons and dendrites, the neuronal projections responsible for electrical signal propagation and interneuron communication.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Zoe Brain 2006

  • The specific biochemical workings of that signal are very complex and involve opiate receptors in the spinal cord, and a special interneuron pathway that facilitates communication within the spinal cord itself Opiate receptors operate in response to acupuncture in a similar manner as they do with drug intervention.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • The specific biochemical workings of that signal are very complex and involve opiate receptors in the spinal cord, and a special interneuron pathway that facilitates communication within the spinal cord itself Opiate receptors operate in response to acupuncture in a similar manner as they do with drug intervention.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • This type of interneuron was thought to dampen activity uniformly across the cortex.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Columbia University neurobiologist Thomas Jessell has found that it takes middling concentrations of this potent morphing factor to produce a motor neuron and lower concentrations to make an interneuron (a cell that relays signals to other neurons, instead of to muscle fibers, as motor neurons do).

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • In this set of experiments we focussed on interneurons, since the identification of interneuron subpopulations is difficult

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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