EFFECTS OF STATIC AND RHYTHMIC TWITCH CONTRACTIONS ON THE DISCHARGE OF GROUP-III AND GROUP-IV MUSCLE AFFERENTS
EFFECTS OF STATIC AND RHYTHMIC TWITCH CONTRACTIONS ON THE DISCHARGE OF GROUP-III AND GROUP-IV MUSCLE AFFERENTS
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DOI:
10.1093/cvr/18.11.663
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
10.8
通讯作者:
MITCHELL, JH
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作者:
KAUFMAN, MP;WALDROP, TG;MITCHELL, JH
Although both static and rhythmic twitch contractions of the hindlimb muscles of anesthetized cats were shown to reflexly evoke pressor responses, the increase in arterial pressure evoked by the former type of contraction was shown to be substantially larger than that evoked by the latter. The impulse activity of single group III and IV muscle afferents, whose activation reflexly increases arterial pressure, was recorded while the triceps surae muscles of anesthetized cats were statically and rhythmically twitch-contracted. Group III afferents (n = 17) discharged significantly more impulses in response to static contraction than in response to rhythmic contraction. Group IV afferents (n = 18) fired approximately the same number of impulses in response to the 2 types of contraction. Many of the group III but only a few of the group IV afferents displayed discharge properties suggestive that these afferents were mechanoreceptors. The discharge of group III afferents are likely to be responsible for the difference in the magnitudes of the reflex pressor responses evoked by static and rhythmic contraction.