DISYNAPTIC INHIBITION OF SPINAL MOTONEURONS FROM MOTOR CORTEX IN MONKEY
DISYNAPTIC INHIBITION OF SPINAL MOTONEURONS FROM MOTOR CORTEX IN MONKEY
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1976.sp011431
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
TANAKA, R
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作者:
JANKOWSKA, E;PADEL, Y;TANAKA, R
The neuronal mechanism of disynaptic inhibition of spinal motoneurons by the corticospinal tract was investigated in Macaca irus. Surface stimulation or weak intracortical stimulation was used in order to evoke the inhibition. Intracellular records were taken from motoneurons in lumbar segments. Both the disynaptic IPSP [inhibitory postsynaptic potential] evoked from group Ia afferents and the disynaptic IPSP evoked from corticospinal fibers were depressed by conditioning stimulation of motor axons to antagonistic muscles. Mutual facilitation of the actions from these 2 fiber systems occurred when nerve impulses set up in them reached the explored spinal segment synchronously. Disynaptic IPSP from group Ia afferents and from the motor cortex may be mediated by common interneurons. No evidence either for or against projections of the same pyramidal tract cells to motoneurons of 1 motor nucleus and to interneurons interposed between group Ia afferents and motoneurons of an antagonistic muscle could be obtained by comparing cortical areas from which monosynaptic E[excitatory]PSP and disynaptic IPSP were evoked in different motor nuclei. The areas from which the disynaptic IPSP were evoked in individual motoneurons appeared to be similar in size to the areas of cortical monosynaptic projections to motoneurons and showed similar degrees of overlap, indicating that the projections of pyramidal tract cells to Ia inhibitory interneurons are as extensive as to motoneurons and that they are similarly organized.