PERIPHERAL CONTROL OF THE CAT STEP CYCLE .1. PHASE DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF RAMP-MOVEMENTS OF THE HIP DURING FICTIVE LOCOMOTION
PERIPHERAL CONTROL OF THE CAT STEP CYCLE .1. PHASE DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF RAMP-MOVEMENTS OF THE HIP DURING FICTIVE LOCOMOTION
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10.1111/j.1748-1716.1981.tb06867.x
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1981-01-01
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GRILLNER, S
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ANDERSSON, O;GRILLNER, S
Acute spinal and curarized cats can generate fictive locomotor activity after an i.v. injection of Nialamid [a monoamine oxidase inhibitor] followed by 4-aminopyridine and L-dopa. The efferent burst activity to flexors and extensors can be recorded in peripheral nerve filaments. Ramp-formed movements were applied in the hip at constant angular velocity in different phases of the spontaneous efferent burst activity. The cycle duration was markedly influenced. A flexion or an extension ramp applied in the early part of the step-cycle (during flexor activity) will prolong the cycle duration, but in the later part of the cycle instead a marked shortening effect will occur. The transition from a prolongation to a shortening is very steep for the extension-ramps, with a subsequent gradual increase from a shortening to a lengthening of the cycle. This type of phase response curve expresses a potent peripheral modulatory effect on the central pattern generator. A ramp movement (flexion or extension) applied in the beginning of the flexor burst will reinforce the flexor activity. In the end of the flexor burst instead there is a directional sensitivity with positive feedback, resulting in an excitation of the flexor activity for flexion ramps, but a depression of the flexor activity for extension-ramps. Extension-ramps also show a position dependent effect which enhances the response in the flexors for more extended hip positions.