Sentence examples for cervical enlargement from inspiring English sources

Two enlargements of the spinal cord are evident: (1) a cervical enlargement (C5 through T1), which provides innervation for the upper extremities, and (2) a lumbosacral enlargement (L1 through S2), which innervates the lower extremities.

The cervical spinal cord was co-activated by trans-spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) that was targeted to the cervical enlargement, simulated from finite element method.

The Mtwo rotary system was designed to be used at full length without performing previous cervical enlargement or creating a manual glide path.

Therefore there must remain the possibility that there were these mNr neurons related to limb control associated with propriospinal neurons in upper cervical segments, and that these projected extensively throughout the cervical enlargement (Nathan et al. 1996 [51]), being related to shoulder movement [37].

Separate CPGs are known to control separate limb muscles, with forelimb CPGs located in the cervical enlargement and hindlimb CPGs residing in the lumbar enlargements (Kiehn, 2011).

They are more numerous in cervical enlargement, but the total number of lamina I projection neurons in this region was not known.

Interestingly, Ono et al. [51] showed fragmented and widely separated collagen bundles in capillaries and decreased amounts of collagen in postmortem posterior half of the lateral funiculus and in the anterior horn of cervical enlargements from patients with sporadic ALS.

They discovered a strong upregulation of neurocan at the lesion epicenter and at both the lumbar and cervical enlargements.

Taken together, these findings suggest that the great majority (> 95%) of lamina I projection neurons in both lumbar and cervical enlargements can be retrogradely labelled by injections into the LPb.

In a study conducted by Andrews and colleagues [ 105] following a spinal contusion at the T8 level, CSPG expression was detected in both the lumbar and cervical enlargements, far away from the injury site.

Unilateral injections of the retrograde tracer Fluoro-Gold (FG) into the cervical spinal enlargement labeled A11 hypothalamic neurons quasi-exclusively among dopamine areas.