Relationship between phrenic and hindlimb extensor activities during fictive locomotion.
In decorticate and in spinal curarized rabbit preparations, respiratory and locomotor rhythms can be closely related (1:1 coupling between successive periods), demonstrating central relationships between the two types of pattern generators. In both preparation types, phrenic discharges are highly correlated to the extensor activities.
D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D003655:Decerebrate State / Q000503:physiopathology; D006614:Hindlimb / Q000187:drug effects; D007980:Levodopa / Q000494:pharmacology; D008124:Locomotion / Q000187:drug effects; D009526:Nialamide / Q000494:pharmacology; D010791:Phrenic Nerve / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits; D012119:Respiration / Q000187:drug effects
D007980:Levodopa; D009526:Nialamide