Postsynaptic potentials evoked in cat hindlimb motoneurons by C-fiber volleys.
Postsynaptic potentials were recorded from flexor and extensor motoneurons in the lumbosacral enlargement of unanesthetized, decerebrate cats spinalized at an upper lumbar level in response to volleys in C-fibers in cutaneous or mixed peripheral nerves. It is proposed that these potentials contribute to the reflex activity of motoneurons engaged in the flexor withdrawal reflex.
D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D003655:Decerebrate State; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006614:Hindlimb / Q000294:innervation; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000502:physiology*; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*