MONO-SYNAPTIC AND OLIGOSYNAPTIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMAN ANKLE JERK AND H-REFLEX
MONO-SYNAPTIC AND OLIGOSYNAPTIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMAN ANKLE JERK AND H-REFLEX
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1984.52.3.435
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
MCKEON, B
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作者:
BURKE, D;GANDEVIA, SC;MCKEON, B
Whether it is possible for oligosynaptic reflex pathways to affect motoneuron discharge in the ankle jerk and H-reflex of the soleus was studied in normal subjects. If the rising phase of the increase in excitability of the soleus motoneuron pool produced by tendon percussion or by electrical stimulation of the peripheral nerve lasts more than a few milliseconds, and if the increase in excitability takes several milliseconds to reach the threshold for motoneuron discharge, these reflexes are unlikely to be exclusively monosynaptic. In relaxes subjects, changes in excitability of the soleus motoneuron pool produced by tendon percussion were examined using conditioning stimuli just below threshold and a test H-reflex just above threshold for a reflex response. The increase in excitability had an average rise time of 10.8 ms and a total duration of .apprx. 25 ms. In single motor units, the rise times of the composite excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP) set up by subthreshold tendon percussion and by subthreshold electrical stimulation of the tibial nerve were estimated from changes in the probability of discharge of voluntarily activated single motor units. Rise times were significantly longer with tendon percussion than with electrical stimulation. In 4 experiments, a number of motor units were studied using identical mechanical and electrical stimuli. The poststimulus time histograms (PSTH) for each stimulus were pooled to provide an estimate of the rise time of the excitability change in the motoneuron pool. The mean rise times of these 4 samples were 10.5 ms with mechanical stimulation and 4.5 ms with electrical stimulation. In 6 motor units, the spontaneous variability in latency of the reflex discharges was small compared to the duration of the increase in probability of discharge. In both reflexes, there was little dispersion in the latencies of motor-unit electromyographic potentials despite the long EPSP rise times. The tendon jerk has a composite EPSP with a rising phase lasting 10 ms, much of which is spent raising the motoneuron membrane potential to threshold. Motoneurons discharge in the last half of the EPSP, some milliseconds after the onset of monosynaptic excitation. Oligosynaptic pathways may affect motoneuron discharge in the ankle jerk and changes in the H-reflex.