Induced changes in spontaneous activity in the rabbit spinal cord

Autor:	L. P. Latash
Rok vydání:	1960
Předmět:	Nervous system Cord Respiratory rate Chemistry General Medicine Spinal cord General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Lumbosacral region medicine.anatomical_structure Afferent Anesthesia medicine Reflex Afferent stimulation
Zdroj:	Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine. 49:321-324
ISSN:	1573-8221 0007-4888
DOI:	10.1007/bf00781933
Popis:	Animals were anesthetized or curarized, spinal cord block was established, and additional afferent stimulation applied; recordings were made of the spontaneous electrical activity of the lumbosacral region of the cord, and it was shown that the amplitude of the potential variations was directly proportional to the rate of arrival of impulses into the area from which the recording was made, and this was specially true of the slow potentials. At the stage of light anesthesia or mild curarization spikes were generated at a steady rate; there were also slow fluctuations of potential at the respiratory rate. On the physiological conditions the spontaneous activities of the brain and spinal cord are differently affected by afferent inflow; it may therefore be suggested that though both are reflex in origin, the two activities are qualitatively different, and that different functional organizations of the two sections of the nervous system have evolved.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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