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The interneuronal conditions of the descending pathways from forelimb afferents to hindlimb motoneurones were investigated by testing spatial interactions in these pathways and between these pathways and segmental lumbar reflex pathways. In high spinal unanaesthetized cats hindlimb motoneurones were intracellularly recorded and spatial interactions were tested between effects evoked by stimulation of pairs of ipsi- and contralateral forelimb nerves or pairs of a forelimb and an ipsilateral hindlimb nerve. The excitatory and late inhibitory pathways from forelimb afferents projecting to most of the hindlimb motoneurone pools, showed an interactive pattern which was distinctly different to the fast inhibitory pathway projecting specifically from ipsilateral forelimb afferents to flexor digitorum and hallucis longus (FDHL) motoneurones. Stimulation of homonymous or heteronymous pairs of two forelimb nerves of both sides evoked generally a distinct spatial facilitation of the excitatory and late inhibitory effects, while the specific early IPSPs to FDHL motoneurones were not facilitated. Paired stimulation of two forelimb nerves of one side only produced spatial facilitation of EPSPs or late IPSPs if low strength stimuli were used, using higher strength which induced larger effects, generally caused occlusion instead. In case of large IPSPs this may be due to the vicinity to the equilibrium potential. Except for an inhibition of cutaneous reflex pathways, the spatial interaction of the excitatory and late inhibitory pathways onto segmental lumbar reflex pathways was weak and variable. The fast inhibitory pathway to FDHL motoneurones showed a partial spatial facilitatory interaction with lumbar reflex pathways from cutaneous and group II muscle afferents. The second IPSP wave evoked by this pathway was inhibited by antidromic stimulation of the ventral root L7S1 and of the alpha-efferents of the antagonistic peroneal nerve. From the results conclusions are drawn on the interneuronal organization of the descending pathways from forelimb afferents to hindlimb motoneurones.
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