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KMID : 0358619940280010099
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Korean Journal of Physiology
1994 Volume.28 No. 1 p.99 ~ p.103
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Facilitation of Afferent Sensory Transmission in the Cuneate Nucleus of Rat during Locomotor Movement
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Shin Hyung-Cheul
Park Hyoung-Jin
Jin Byung-Kwan
Chapin John K.
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Abstract
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Single neuronal activities were recorded in the cuneate nucleus of awake rats during rest and running behavior. Movement-induced changes in somatic sensory transmission were tested by generating post-stimulus time histograms of these neurons’ responses to stimulation through eleetrodes chronically implanted under the skin of the forepaw, during control resting behavior and during two standardized speeds of locomotor movement: slow (1.0 steps/s), fast (2.0 steps/s). The magnitudes of firing during these responses were measured and normalized as percentage increases over background firing. The averaged evoked unit responses were facilitated by (SEM) as compared with resting behavior, during slow and fast movement respectively. This is to be compared with the movement-induced sensory suppressions observed previously in the ventrobasal thalamus and in the primary somatosensory cortex of slowly running rats. These results suggest that afferent somatosensory information may be uniquely modulated at each sensory relay, such that it may be facilitated at brainstem level and then subjected to suppression at higher somatosensory nuclei during movement.
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KEYWORD
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Somatosensory, Cuneate nucleus, Afferent modulation, Locomotion
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