title: Disruption of cutaneous feedback alters magnitude but not direction of muscle responses to postural perturbations in the decerebrate cat.
abstract: Quadrupeds and bipeds respond to horizontal perturbations of the support surface with muscular responses that are broadly tuned and directionally sensitive. Since the discovery of this directional sensitivity, interest has turned toward the critical sensory systems necessary to generate these responses. We hypothesize that cutaneous feedback affects the magnitude of muscle responses to postural perturbation but has little effect on the directionality of the muscle response. We developed a modified premammillary decerebrate cat preparation to evaluate the sensory mechanisms driving this directionally sensitive muscle activation in response to support surface perturbation. This preparation allows us the flexibility to isolate the proprioceptive (cutaneous and muscle receptors) system from other sensory influences. We found that loss of cutaneous feedback leads to a significant loss in background activity causing a smaller muscular response to horizontal perturbations. However, the directional properties of the muscular responses remained intact.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. c-honeycutt@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Claire F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Honeycutt
authors.forename: T Richard
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Nichols
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D003655:Decerebrate State / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003714:Denervation / Q000379:methods; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods; D025461:Feedback, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D016014:Linear Models; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004856:Postural Balance / Q000502:physiology*; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation*
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