Long-latency, inhibitory spinal pathway to ankle flexors activated by homonymous group 1 afferents
| Autor: | Monica A. Gorassini, François D. Roy, Jaynie F. Yang, Yoshino Okuma, Ephrem T. Zewdie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Time Factors Physiology Pyramidal Tracts Sensory system Inhibitory postsynaptic potential Spinal pathway Young Adult Skin Physiological Phenomena medicine Humans Neurons Afferent Muscle Skeletal Feedback Physiological Electromyography General Neuroscience Peroneal Nerve Middle Aged Evoked Potentials Motor Electric Stimulation Long latency medicine.anatomical_structure Spinal Cord Female Ankle Psychology Neuroscience Common peroneal nerve Brain Stem |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Neurophysiology. 111:2544-2553 |
| ISSN: | 1522-1598 0022-3077 |
| DOI: | 10.1152/jn.00673.2013 |
| Popis: | Inhibitory feedback from sensory pathways is important for controlling movement. Here, we characterize, for the first time, a long-latency, inhibitory spinal pathway to ankle flexors that is activated by low-threshold homonymous afferents. To examine this inhibitory pathway in uninjured, healthy participants, we suppressed motor-evoked potentials (MEPs), produced in the tibialis anterior (TA), by a prior stimulation to the homonymous common peroneal nerve (CPN). The TA MEP was suppressed by a triple-pulse stimulation to the CPN, applied 40, 50, and 60 ms earlier and at intensities of 0.5–0.7 times motor threshold (average suppression of test MEP was 33%). Whereas the triple-pulse stimulation was below M-wave and H-reflex threshold, it produced a long-latency inhibition of background muscle activity, approximately 65–115 ms after the CPN stimulation, a time period that overlapped with the test MEP. However, not all of the MEP suppression could be accounted for by this decrease in background muscle activity. Evoked responses from direct activation of the corticospinal tract, at the level of the brain stem or thoracic spinal cord, were also suppressed by low-threshold CPN stimulation. Our findings suggest that low-threshold muscle and cutaneous afferents from the CPN activate a long-latency, homonymous spinal inhibitory pathway to TA motoneurons. We propose that inhibitory feedback from spinal networks, activated by low-threshold homonymous afferents, helps regulate the activation of flexor motoneurons by the corticospinal tract. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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