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  • Title: Convergence on interneurones mediating the reciprocal Ia inhibition of motoneurones. III. Effects from supraspinal pathways.
    Author: Hultborn H, Illert M, Santini M.
    Journal: Acta Physiol Scand; 1976 Mar; 96(3):368-91. PubMed ID: 179277.
    Abstract:
    Supraspinal effects were investigated in interneurones identified as mediating the disynaptic reciprocal Ia inhibition of motoneurones (referred to as Ia inhibitory interneurones). It was revealed that volleys in the vestibulospinal tract may evoke mono- and disynaptic EPSPs in interneurones monosynaptically excited from extensor muscles, i.e. extensor coupled Ia inhibitory interneurones. Flexor coupled interneurones instead received disynaptic inhibition. Volleys in the rubrospinal tract evoked a dominating polysynaptic excitation, usually mixed with inhibition, in flexor as well as extensor coupled interneurones. Disynaptic rubrospinal EPSPs and IPSPs were also revealed. The pyramidal tract also gives rise to a dominating polysynaptic excitation, usually mixed with inhibition, in flexor as well as extensor coupled Ia inhibitory interneurones. Rubrospinal and pyramidal volleys were shown to facilitate transmission in various segmental reflex pathways to the Ia inhibitory interneurones. A detailed comparison reveals a striking parallelism of segmental and supraspinal effects on alpha-motoneurones and Ia inhibitory interneurones connected to the same muscles. This considerably strengthens the hypothesis of an "alpha-gamma-linkage in the reciprocal inhibition".
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