Firing of spinal motoneurones due to electrical interaction in the rat: an in vitro study.

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K Arasaki,N Kudo,T Nakanishi,

The excitatory interaction between spinal motoneurones was investigated by means of electromyogram (EMG) recordings from hindlimb muscles as well as intracellular ones from their innervating motoneurones in the isolated preparation of immature rats. Stimulation of the muscle nerve to biceps femoris or medial gastrocnemius or of the L5 ventral root evoked early and late EMG responses in the muscle of the preparations with the dorsal roots cut. The early response was produced directly by volleys in the motor nerve. The late response was of spinal origin, since it disappeared after the severance of the ventral root. The thresholds and the conduction velocities of nerve fibres, which conducted the centripetal impulse causing the late response, were compatible with those of motor nerve fibres. The amplitude of the late response was 5-10% of that of the maximum early EMG response. Intracellular recordings from spinal motoneurones revealed that stimulation of the ventral root elicited the double discharge composed of antidromic and delayed spike potentials. The delayed spike was never evoked after the spike potential elicited directly by a short depolarizing pulse. The double discharge was observed in about 6% of the motoneurones examined. The threshold of the stimulus intensity evoking the double discharge was in the range of those of motor nerve fibres. The latencies of the delayed excitation were 7.0-9.0 ms, comparable to the intraspinal delays of the late EMG response. Stimulation of the ventral root at intensities subthreshold for antidromic activation was found to produce a small depolarizing potential in about 60% of the motoneurones examined. The amplitudes were 0.5-5.0 mV, and the onset and the peak latencies 2.0-7.0 ms and 5.0-8.0 ms, respectively. The potential was unaffected by the deficiency of calcium ions in the perfusing medium and persisted after the degeneration of the afferent fibres in the ventral root.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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K Arasaki,N Kudo,T Nakanishi,

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Journal: Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnfo

VOLUME: 54

Page Numbers: 437-45

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ISSN: 0014-4819

DAY: 15

MONTH: 02

YEAR: 1984

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