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BMC Physiology BioMed Central Research article Open Access The relationship between ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) genotype and motor unit physiology: preliminary studies 1 †2 †3 †4 Robin A Conwit* , Shari Ling , Stephen Roth , Daniel Stashuk , Ben Hurley†3, Robert Ferrell†5 and E Jeffrey Metter†2 Address: 1National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Rockville, MD, USA 20892, 2Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, Harbor Hospital, 5th Floor, Baltimore, MD, USA 21225, 3Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, 4University of Waterloo, Department of Systems Design Engineering, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and 5Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Email: Robin A Conwit* - conwitr@; Shari Ling - LingSh@; Stephen Roth - sroth1@; Daniel Stashuk - stashuk@watsup.uwaterloo.ca; Ben Hurley - benhur@; Robert Ferrell - rferrell@; E Jeffrey Metter - metterj@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 23 September 2005 Received: 31 January 2005 Accepted: 23 September 2005 BMC Physiology 2005, 5:15 doi:10.1186/1472-6793-5-15 This article is available from: /1472-6793/5/15 © 2005 Conwit et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits u