期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 106, 期 4, 页码 1943-1953出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00258.2011
关键词
modularity; traveling wave; spinal cord injury; rhythm generation; central pattern generator
资金
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NS-048844, NS-055976, NS-007440]
- The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
AuYong N, Ollivier-Lanvin K, Lemay MA. Population spatiotemporal dynamics of spinal intermediate zone interneurons during air-stepping in adult spinal cats. J Neurophysiol 106: 1943-1953, 2011. First published July 20, 2011; doi:10.1152/jn.00258.2011. The lumbar spinal cord circuitry can autonomously generate locomotion, but it remains to be determined which types of neurons constitute the locomotor generator and how their population activity is organized spatially in the mammalian spinal cord. In this study, we investigated the spatiotemporal dynamics of the spinal interneuronal population activity in the intermediate zone of the adult mammalian cord. Segmental interneuronal population activity was examined via multi-unit activity (MUA) during air-stepping initiated by perineal stimulation in subchronic spinal cats. In contrast to single-unit activity, MUA provides a continuous measure of neuronal activity within a similar to 100-mu m volume around the recording electrode. MUA was recorded during air-stepping, along with hindlimb muscle activity, from segments L3 to L7 with two multichannel electrode arrays placed into the left and right hemicord intermediate zones (lamina V-VII). The phasic modulation and spatial organization of MUA dynamics were examined in relation to the locomotor cycle. Our results show that segmental population activity is modulated with respect to the ipsilateral step cycle during air-stepping, with maximal activity occurring near the ipsilateral swing to stance transition period. The phase difference between the population activity within the left and right hemicords was also found to correlate to the left-right alternation of the step cycle. Furthermore, examination of MUA throughout the rostrocaudal extent showed no differences in population dynamics between segmental levels, suggesting that the spinal interneurons targeted in this study may operate as part of a distributed clock mechanism rather than a rostrocaudal oscillation as seen with motoneuronal activity.
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