Dorsal horn cells connected to the Lissauer tract and their relation to the dorsal root potential in the rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 667-679

  Lidierth, Malcolm ^a   Wall, Patrick D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DORSAL ROOT POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AFFERENT DEPOLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPIKE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0031838173     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.2.667     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. ANDERSEN, P., ECCLES, J. C., AND SCHMIDT, R. F. Presynaptic inhibitory action of cerebral cortex on the spinal cord. Nature 194: 740-743, 1962.
2. BARRON, D. H. AND MATTHEWS, B.H.C. The interpretation of potential changes in the spinal cord. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 92: 276-321, 1938.
3. CASALE, E. J. AND LIGHT, A. R. The terminations of single, physiologically identified, somatosensory, corticospinal tract axons in the lumbar spinal cord of the cat. J. Neurophysiol. 66: 1738-1749, 1991.
4. CASALE, E. J., LIGHT, A. R., AND RUSTIONI, A. Direct projection of the corticospinal tract to the superficial laminae of the spinal cord of the rat. J. Comp. Neurol. 278: 275-286, 1988.
5. CERVERO, F., IGGO, A., AND MOLONY, V. Segmental and intersegmental organization of neurons in the substantia gelatinosa Rolandi of the cat's spinal cord. Q. J. Exp. Physiol. 64: 315-326, 1979.
6. CHEEMA, S., RUSTIONI, A., AND WHITSEL, B. L. Light and electron microscopic evidence for a direct corticospinal projection to superficial laminae of the dorsal horn in cats and monkeys. J. Comp. Neurol 225: 276-290, 1984.
7. CHUNG, K. AND COGGESHALL, R. E. Quantitation of propriospinal fibers in the tract of Lissauer of the rat. J. Comp. Neurol. 211: 418-426, 1982.
8. ECCLES, J. C. Postsynaptic and presynaptic inhibitory actions in the spinal cord. In: Progress in Brain Research. Brain Mechanisms, edited by G. Moruzzi, A. Fessard, and H. H. Jasper. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1963, vol. 1, p. 1-18.
9. ECCLES, J. C. Presynaptic inhibition in the spinal cord. In: Progress in Brain Research. Organization of the Spinal Cord, edited by J. C. Eccles and J. P. Schadé. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1964, vol. 12, p. 65-91.
10. HOWLAND, B., LETTVIN, J. T., MCCULLOCH, W. S., PITTS, W., AND WALL, P. D. Reflex inhibitions by dorsal root interaction. J. Neurophysiol. 18: 1-17, 1955.
11. JANKOWSKA, E. Interneuronal relay in spinal pathways from proprioceptors. Prog. Neurobiol. 38: 335-378, 1992.
12. JANKOWSKA, E. AND RIDDELL, J. S. Interneurons mediating presynaptic inhibition of group II muscle afferents in the cat spinal cord. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 483: 461-471, 1995.
13. JANKOWSKA, E. AND RIDDELL, J. S. Neuronal systems involved in modulating synaptic transmission from group II muscle afferents. In: Presynaptic Inhibition and Neurol Control, edited by P. Rudomin, R. Romo, and L. Mendell. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1998, p. 315-328.
14. LAMOTTE, C. Distribution of the tract of Lissauer and the dorsal root fibers in the primate spinal cord. J. Comp. Neurol. 172: 529-561, 1977.
15. LIDIERTH, M. AND WALL, P. D. Synchronous inherent oscillations of potentials within the rat lumbar spinal cord. Neurosci. Lett. 220: 25-28, 1996.
16. MANNION, R. J., DOUBELL, T. P., COGGESHALL, R. E., AND WOOLF, C. J. Collateral sprouting of uninjured primary afferent A-fibers into the superficial dorsal horn of the adult rat spinal cord after topical capsaicin treatment to the sciatic nerve. J. Neurosci. 16: 5189-5195, 1996.
17. MCMAHON, S. B. AND WALL, P. D. The significance of plastic changes in lamina 1 systems. In: Processing of Sensory Information in the Superficial Dorsal Horn, edited by F. Cervero, G. J. Bennett, and P. M. Headley. New York: Plenum Press, 1989, p. 249-272.
18. MENSE, S. AND CRAIG, A. D., JR. Spinal and supraspinal terminations of primary afferent fibers from the gastrocnemius-soleus muscle in the cat. Neuroscience 26: 1023-1035, 1988.
19. NIELSEN, J., PETERSEN, N., AND BALLEGAARD, M. Latency of effects evoked by electrical and magnetic brain stimulation in lower limb motoneurons in man. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 484: 791-802, 1995.
20. RIDDELL, J. S., JANKOWSKA, E., AND EIDE, E. Depolarization of group II muscle afferents by stimuli applied in the locus coeruleus and raphe nuclei of the cat. J Physiol. (Lond.) 461: 723-741, 1993.
21. RUDOMIN, P., SOLODKIN, M., AND JIMENEZ, I. Synaptic potentials of primary afferent fibers and motoneurons evoked by single intermediate nucleus interneurons in the cat spinal cord. J. Neurophysiol. 57: 1288-1313, 1987.
22. RUDOMIN, P., QUEVEDO, J., AND EGUIBAR, J. R. Presynaptic modulation of spinal reflexes. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 3: 997-1004, 1993.
23. SCHMIDT, R. F. Presynaptic inhibition in the vertebrate central nervous system. Ergeb. Physiol. 63: 20-101, 1971.
24. SZENTAGOTHAI, J. Neuronal and synaptic arrangements in the substantia gelatinosa Rolandi. J. Comp. Neurol. 122: 219-240, 1964.
25. THOMPSON, S.W.N. AND WALL, P. D. The effect of GABA and 5-HT antagonists on rat dorsal root potentials. Neurosci. Lett. 217: 153-156, 1996.
26. WALL, P. D. Excitability changes in afferent fiber terminations and their relation to slow potentials. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 142: 1-21, 1958.
27. WALL, P. D. The origin of a spinal cord slow potential. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 164: 508-526, 1962.
28. WALL, P. D. Impulses originating in the region of dendrites. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 180: 116-133, 1965.
29. WALL, P. D. The laminar organization of dorsal horn and effects of descending impulses. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 188: 403-423, 1967.
30. WALL, P. D. AND DEVOR, M. The effect of peripheral nerve injury on dorsal root potentials and on transmission of afferent signals into the spinal cord. Brain Res. 209: 95-111, 1981.
31. WALL, P. D. AND LIDIERTH, M. Five sources of the dorsal root potential: their interactions and origins in the superficial dorsal horn. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 860-871, 1997.
32. WALL, P. D. AND YAKSH, T. L. Effect of Lissauer tract stimulation on activity in dorsal roots and ventral roots. Exp. Neurol. 60: 570-583, 1978.
33. WILLIS, W. D. AND COGGESHALL, R. E. Sensory Mechanisms of the Spinal Cord. New York: Plenum Press, 1991.