期刊
CELL
卷 163, 期 5, 页码 1191-1203出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.074
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资金
- Torsten and Ragnar Soderberg's Foundation
- Swedish Research Council
- European Research Council
- NIH [R01 NS090919]
- Hjarnfonden
The episodic nature of locomotion is thought to be controlled by descending inputs from the brainstem. Most studies have largely attributed this control to initiating excitatory signals, but little is known about putative commands that may specifically determine locomotor offset. To link identifiable brainstem populations to a potential locomotor stop signal, we used developmental genetics and considered a discrete neuronal population in the reticular formation: the V2a neurons. We find that those neurons constitute a major excitatory pathway to locomotor areas of the ventral spinal cord. Selective activation of V2a neurons of the rostral medulla stops ongoing locomotor activity, owing to an inhibition of premotor locomotor networks in the spinal cord. Moreover, inactivation of such neurons decreases spontaneous stopping in vivo. Therefore, the V2a stop neurons represent a glutamatergic descending pathway that favors immobility and may thus help control the episodic nature of locomotion.
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