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. 1983 May;338:113–128. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1983.sp014664

Shared reflex pathways of group I afferents of different cat hind-limb muscles.

P J Harrison, E Jankowska, T Johannisson
PMCID: PMC1197185  PMID: 6308242

Abstract

The convergence of group I muscle afferents of different muscle origin onto interneurones in spinal reflex pathways has been investigated using the technique of spatial facilitation of the transmission from afferents to motoneurones. The investigated pathways are those of non-reciprocal inhibition and of oligosynaptic excitation of motoneurones. Extensive convergence has been found of group I afferents from muscles operating at the same and different joints onto the interneurones interposed in both excitatory and inhibitory, disynaptic and trisynaptic pathways to motoneurones. Convergence has been found between muscle spindle Ia and/or tendon organ Ib afferents from different muscles, thereby extending observations on convergence of these subgroups of group I afferents from the same muscles. The results show that group I afferents of different muscles influence motoneurones via shared neuronal pathways and that transmission from these afferents is influenced by afferents originating in other muscles. The afferent information forwarded to individual motoneurones is therefore the ensemble picture of the length and tension of many muscles.

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