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INHIBITORY INTERNEURON [2 records]

Record 1 1998-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 2 1979-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
CONT

The reciprocal synapse(...) functions as an inhibitory feedback loop. [The] axon of a motor neuron in the spinal cord gives off a collateral branch that makes excitatory synapses onto a small short-axon cell called a Renshaw interneuron; the interneuron then makes inhibitory synapses back onto the motor neuron. This inhibitory feedback loop(...) was found in 1954(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
CONT

La synapse réciproque (...) fonctionne comme une bande de régulation rétro-inhibitrice.

OBS

Pour éviter une faute de lecture, préférer la graphie avec trait d'union: "rétro-inhibitrice".

Spanish

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