Abstract
1. In cats with the sacral dorsal roots cut on one side electrical stimulation (15-40 c/s) of the central end of the transected ipsilateral pelvic nerve depressed spontaneous bladder contractions. The depression was abolished by transecting the ipsilateral sacral ventral roots. 2. Electrical stimulation of acutely or chronically transected ('deafferented') sacral ventral roots depressed spontaneous bladder contractions and the firing of sacral parasympathetic preganglionic neurones innervating the bladder. The depression of neuronal firing occurred ipsilateral and contralateral to the point of stimulation, but only occurred with stimulation of sacral roots containing preganglionic axons and only with stimulation of sacral roots containing preganglionic axons and only at intensities of stimulation (0-7-4V) above the threshold for activation of these axons. 3. The inhibitory responses were not abolished by strychnine administered by micro-electrophoresis to preganglionic neurones, but were blocked by the intravenous administration of strychnine. 4. The firing of preganglionic neurones elicited by micro-electrophoretic administration of an excitant amino acid (DL-homocysteic acid) was not depressed by stimulation of the ventral roots. 5. It is concluded that the inhibition of the sacral outflow to the bladder by stimulation of sacral ventral roots is related to antidromic activation of vesical preganglionic axons. Collaterals of these axons must excite inhibitory interneurones which in turn depress transmission at a site on the micturition reflex pathway prior to the preganglionic neurones.
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