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  • Title: Stimulus time-locked responses of motoneurons during forelimb fictive locomotion evoked by repetitive stimulation of the lateral funiculus.
    Author: Kinoshita M, Yamaguchi T.
    Journal: Brain Res; 2001 Jun 15; 904(1):31-42. PubMed ID: 11516409.
    Abstract:
    In cat forelimb fictive locomotion evoked by repetitive stimulation of the upper cervical lateral funiculus, locomotor discharges consisted of activities time-locked to each stimulus, which were rhythmically modulated. The stimulus time-locked activities were investigated by intracellular recording from motoneurons. In both elbow flexor and extensor motoneurons, there observed stimulus time-locked disynaptic EPSPs, trisynaptic IPSPs and polysynaptic EPSPs, all of which were rhythmically modulated with specific patterns. The disynaptic EPSPs of flexor motoneurons were facilitated in the flexor phase of locomotion, whereas those of extensor motoneurons were facilitated from the flexor phase to the flexor-to-extensor transition phase. Modulation depth was larger in flexor motoneurons. Trisynaptic IPSPs changed in amplitude in parallel with the disynaptic EPSPs of the antagonistic motoneurons. Late, polysynaptic EPSPs of both flexor and extensor motoneurons increased in amplitude along with corresponding nerve discharges. After lesions of the lateral funiculus at C6/C7, both the disynaptic EPSPs and trisynaptic IPSPs were abolished in the motoneurons located caudally to the lesions. However, only trisynaptic IPSPs were lost in the rostrally located motoneurons. Furthermore, the lesions disclosed that extensor motoneurons received another kind of stimulus time-locked EPSPs, trisynaptic EPSPs, which were transmitted through the ventral part of the spinal cord, and rhythmically facilitated in the extensor phase. Stimulus time-locked PSPs observed in this study may at least in part be evoked by last-order interneurons of the central pattern generator, which may be reciprocally organized.
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