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Lower Motor Neurons Flashcards

1
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Innervate Muscle

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Lower (alpha) motor neurons

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2
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Have large axon diameters, are heavily myelinated, and are fast-conducting

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Lower (alpha) motor neurons

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Motor neurons end at

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Neuromuscular Junctions

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At the neuromuscular junction, we see acetylcholine nicotine synapse which is called

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Excitation-contraction coupling

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5
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What is an example of a drug that affects the neuromuscular junction?

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Botulinum Toxin

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What is an example of a disease that affects the neuromuscular junction?

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Myaethenia Gravis

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Motor neurons controlling flexor muscles lie dorsal to

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Motor neurons for extensors

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Motor neurons controlling axial muscles lie medial to those controlling

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Distal muscles

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9
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This is an example of

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Somatotropic arrangement

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10
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The arrangement of lower motor neurons in the ventral horn is called

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Somatotropic arrangement

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11
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The ventral horn shape is based on

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Motor neurons to distal limbs

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12
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There are a few lower motor neurons (LMNs) with specific

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Functions

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13
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Lower Motor neurons to trapezius and sternocleidomastoid (accessory nerve)

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C2: accessory nucleus

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14
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Motor neurons to the Phrenic nerve controlling diaphragm

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C3-C5

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15
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Motor neurons innervating urethral and external anal sphincter.

-For voluntary control of urination and defecation

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S3-S4 Onuf’snucleus

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16
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The motor neurons to the pelvic floor muscles

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S2-S4

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17
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Lower motor neurons are components of which CN’s?

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CNs III-VII and IX-XII

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18
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A motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates

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Motor Unit

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19
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All the alpha motor neurons that innervate a single muscle

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Motor neuron pool

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20
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All muscle fibers within a motor unit are the

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Same type

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21
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Determine muscle fiber type

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Motor neurons

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22
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Smaller motor neurons innervate

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Small fibers

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23
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Shows a checkerbord appearance with diffuse blends of fiber types

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Myosin ATPase stain

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24
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Increasing firing rate of alpha motor neurons =

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Increased force

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25
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We can also control the contraction force of LMNs by

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Recruiting additional motor units

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26
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In the stretch reflex circuit, muscle stretch receptors are connected to la afferents. These stretch receptors are

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Excited

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27
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Then, the Ia afferent makes an excitatory synapse onto quadriceps motor neurons, causing

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Muscle Contraction

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28
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The Ia afferent also makes an excitatory synapse onto an inhibitory interneuron, which inhibits

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Hamstring (flexor) motor neurons

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29
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Provide information about body position/movement

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Proprioreceptors

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30
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Arranged in parallelwith skeletal muscles fibers

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Muscle spindles

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31
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Intrafusal muscle fibers within a connective tissue capsule

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Muscle spindles

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32
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Muscle spindles have 2 types of afferents, both which have a large diameter, are myelinated, and respond to stretch. What are they?

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Ia: dynamic (rapid stretch)
II: Sustained

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33
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Innervate muscle spindle intrafusal fibers

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γ-motor neurons

34
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DO NOT cause skeletal muscle fibers to contract

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γ-motor neurons

35
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Increase the excitability of the muscle spindle

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γ-motor neurons

36
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Changes the set point of the stretch feedback loop

-Keeps Spindle on-line

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Gamma loop

37
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The Gamma Loop provides additional control of

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Alpha motor neurons and muscle contraction

38
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Normally both alpha-and gamma-motor neurons are

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Co-activated

39
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Increases during skilled movements and motor learning

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Gamma activity

40
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Used clinically to test motor system

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Stretch reflex

41
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Indicates pathology to afferents, efferents, or their spinal cord connection

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Absent or decreased stretch reflex

42
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May indicate pathology above the spinal cord segment. (“supraspinal”)
Stretch Reflex used Clinically to test Motor System

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Increased reflex

43
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The resting tension in a muscle produced by muscle elasticity and resting discharge of motor neurons

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Muscle Tone

44
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Contributes to postural control and ability to store energy when the muscle is stretched (e.g. during walking or balancing)

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Muscle tone

45
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Measured by moving around limbs. Flexion-extension, wrist rotation

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Muscle tone

46
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Occurs when lower motor neurons are damaged

47
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Occurs with supraspinal lesions because stretch reflexes are increased

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Hypertonia

48
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Proprioceptors in-series with the muscle that respond to muscle TENSION

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Golgi-Tendon Organs (GTOs)

49
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The stimulus for the flexor withdrawal reflex is

50
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Excitation of flexor motor neurons to entire ipsilateral limb. (removes a limb from a painful stimulus.)

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Flexor Withdrawal Reflex

51
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Contralateral Limb Extensor muscles are excited in the

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Crossed Extension Reflex

52
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Use sensory stimulation (and electrode stimulation) of muscles to activate neural circuits to elicit walking in persons after stroke, spinal cord injury, or with Parkinsons disease

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Body-weight supported treadmill training

53
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Symptoms of lower motor neuron syndrome will be in the muscles that are innervated by the

54
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Weakness so severe that a muscle cannot be contracted

55
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Weakness or partial paralysis

56
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Severe weakness or paralysis

57
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Refers to bilateral lower limb weakness

58
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Refers to one side of the body weakness (arm and leg)

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Hemiplegia

59
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Imprecise term for either weakness or no movement

60
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Without motor neuron innervation, muscles cannot contract, so lose mass. They also lose trophic support from the motor neurons. This results in

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Muscle Atrophy

61
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Electromyographic changes: fibrillations, positive sharp waves, fasciculations. These are measures of

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Denervation

62
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An investigatory tool to assess the source muscle weakness

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Electromyography

63
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Short-duration, spontaneous biphasic or triphasic potentials produced by single muscle fibers

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Fibrillation

64
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Only detected with EMG

-Indicative of denervated muscle

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Fibrillation

65
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Larger potentials caused by spontaneous activity in a motor unit or several motor units

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Fasciculations

66
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Caused by lower motor neuron lesions, particularly in anterior horn cell disease such as ALS

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Fasciculations

67
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Large fascicultation potentials are suggestive of

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Denervation and reinnervation

68
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Fasciculations occur with damage to lower motor neurons. Can be normal. These are very common in

69
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Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis (ALS)àLoss of motor neurons in

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Ventral Horn

70
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What are 3 things that can cause LMNs?

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Guillain-Barre, Post-polio syndrome, Werdnig-Hoffman disease

71
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The polio virus attacks ventral horn motor neurons, causing

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LMN syndrome

72
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The polio recovery and stable period is due to sprouting by neighboring

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Motor neurons

73
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Occurs years later because those new sprouts cannot be sustained

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Post-polio period

74
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A group of diseases caused by degeneration of the anterior horns

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Spinal Muscle Atrophy (SMA I-IV)

75
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Spinal Muscle Atrophy (SMA I-IV) diseases are progressive and begin in infancy. They are due to abnormalities in

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Chromosome 5

76
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Most common type of SMA (I)

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Werdnig-Hoffman Disease

77
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Acute infantile spinal muscle atrophy

-“Floppy baby” disease

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Werdnig-Hoffman Disease

78
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What is the inheritance pattern of Werdnig-Hoffman Disease?

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Autosomal-recessive inheritance

79
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Surface electrodes stimulate skin over the nerve, to excite the nerve. Recording electrodes record the Compound Action Potential

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Motor nerve conduction tests

80
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Decreased in muscle disease or neuromuscular junction disease

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Amplitude of the muscle response (CMAP)

81
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Conduction velocity: the time to the CMAP/distance btw. electrodes measures

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Fastest fibers

82
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Is decreased with demyelinating conditions

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Conduction velocity

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