THE BEHAVIOUR OF CHROMATOLYSED MOTONEURONES STUDIED BY INTRACELLULAR RECORDING
THE BEHAVIOUR OF CHROMATOLYSED MOTONEURONES STUDIED BY INTRACELLULAR RECORDING
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1958.sp006041
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发表时间:
1958-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
YOUNG, RR
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作者:
ECCLES, JC;LIBET, B;YOUNG, RR
The responses of chromatolyzed motoneurones of cats were studied by intra-cellular recording from 14 to 44 days after the appropriate ventral roots were severed extradurally. Chromatolyzed motoneurones do not signifi-cantly differ from normal motoneurones in respect to resting, spike or after potentials. The principal abnormalities appear in relation to the potentials which are generated by excitatory synaptic action (the EPSP''s) and in the manner of initiation of impulses by the motoneurone. In chromatolyzed motoneurones, the monosynaptic EPSP''s are significantly reduced in size and in time to summit, and superimposed upon them are a variety of hump-like depolarizations which are transitional to the generation of full-size impulses with the discharge of impulses down the motor axons. Hyperpolarization of a motoneurone reversibly depresses or abolishes these humps. The humps are consequently attributed to responses of patches of the soma-dendritic membrane or to full-size impulses restricted to remote dendritic areas. Antidromic propagation into the initial segment of chromatolyzed motoneurones has a lowered safety factor and its spike potential is small relative to the somatodendritic spike. These abnormalities account for the longer latency and greatly increased temporal dispersion of the reflex discharge evoked by a group I afferent volley. The unfavorable effect on the integrative Junction of the motoneurone is discussed.