CHOLINERGIC AND INHIBITORY SYNAPSES IN A PATHWAY FROM MOTOR-AXON COLLATERALS TO MOTONEURONES
CHOLINERGIC AND INHIBITORY SYNAPSES IN A PATHWAY FROM MOTOR-AXON COLLATERALS TO MOTONEURONES
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1954.sp005226
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发表时间:
1954-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
KOKETSU, K
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作者:
ECCLES, JC;FATT, P;KOKETSU, K
Intracellular recordings from motoneurones in lumbar region of cat''s spinal cord provide a satisfactory explanation for the antidromic inhibitory effect discovered by Renshaw (1941). It is postulated that the activation of interneurones takes place via collaterals of motor axons. Renshaw cells were caused to fire repetitively by administration of acetylcholine via arterial blood supply of spinal cord. Sensitivity is increased by eserine and depressed by dihydro-beta-erythroidine. Antidromic inhibitory potential of motoneurones is produced through mediation of Renshaw cells. Depression and shortening of cell discharge by dihydro-beta-erythroidine and its prolongation by anticholinesterases are accompanied by corresponding changes in inhibitory potential. The proposed anatomical pathway is shown. Motor-axon collaterals converge to make synaptic contacts with Renshaw cells whose axons in turn converge to make synaptic contacts with motoneurones at same segmental level. Renshaw cells are concentrated in ventro-medial zone of ventral horn and send their axons dorso-laterally towards motoneurones. Repetitive spikes which an antidromic volley generates are initially so well synchronized that they fuse to give a rhythmic potential wave at about 1000/sec.