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  • Title: Facilitatory interaction between cutaneous afferents from low threshold mechanoreceptors and nociceptors in segmental reflex pathways to alpha-motoneurons.
    Author: Behrends T, Schomburg ED, Steffens H.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1983 Jan 31; 260(1):131-4. PubMed ID: 6297679.
    Abstract:
    EPSPs evoked by air puff stimulation of the hairy skin of the hindlimb or by low strength stimulation of the lateral sural nerve were facilitated by radiant heat of 50-53 degrees C but not by radiant heat of 42-43 degrees C. The results indicate that afferents from low threshold mechanoreceptors and from nociceptors of the skin converge onto common interneurons in reflex pathways to alpha-motoneurons. This would allow a functionally useful cooperation of these two types of afferents in spinal motor control.
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