Synaptic connections from large afferents of wrist flexor and extensor muscles to synergistic motoneurones in man
| Autor: | G. R. Chalmers, Parveen Bawa |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Male Flexor Carpi Ulnaris Electromyography Wrist Tendons medicine Extensor Carpi Ulnaris Humans Neurons Afferent Muscle Skeletal Muscle Spindles Motor Neurons medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Reflex Monosynaptic General Neuroscience Anatomy Motor neuron musculoskeletal system Median Nerve body regions medicine.anatomical_structure Synapses Excitatory postsynaptic potential Reflex Female business Extensor Digitorum Communis Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Experimental brain research. 116(2) |
| ISSN: | 0014-4819 |
| Popis: | Short-latency excitatory Ia reflex connections were determined between pairs of human wrist flexor and extensor muscles. Spindle Ia afferents were stimulated by either tendon tap or electrical stimulation. The activity of voluntarily activated single motor units was recorded intramuscularly from pairs of wrist flexor or extensor muscles. Cross-correlation between stimuli and the discharge of the motor units provided a measure of the homonymous or heteronymous excitatory input to a motoneurone. Homonymous motoneurone facilitation was generally stronger than that of the heteronymous motoneurones. The principal wrist flexors, flexor carpi radialis (FCR) and flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU), were tightly connected through a bidirectional short-latency reflex pathway. In contrast, the extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) and the extensor carpi radialis (ECR) did not have similar connections. ECU motoneurones received no short-latency excitatory Ia input from the ECR. ECR motoneurones did receive excitatory Ia input from ECU Ia afferents; however, its latency was delayed by several milliseconds compared with other heteronymous Ia excitatory effects observed. The wrist and finger extensors were linked through heteronymous Ia excitatory reflexes. The reflex connections observed in humans are largely similar to those observed in the cat, with the exception of heteronymous effects from the ECU to the ECR and from the extensor digitorum communis (EDC) to the ECU, which are present only in humans. The differences in the reflex organization of the wrist flexors versus the extensors probably reflects the importance of grasping. |
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