Table 4. Excitatory and inhibitory reticulospinal contacts on long descending propriospinal interneurons contralateral and ipsilateral to L2 injection site.

All cells were located within segments C4-5 and a minimum of three sections was analysed per experimental condition per rat.

	RAT	No. cells reconstructed	CTb contacts (total)	VGLUT2+CTb	% VGLUT2
Contralateral Cells	4	7	356	283	79.5
	5	6	81	60	74.1
	6	5	84	70	83.3
Mean ± SD					78.9 ±4.7
Ipsilateral Cells	4	5	262	171	65.3
	5	7	102	75	73.5
	6	6	299	243	81.3
Mean ± SD					73.7±8.0
	RAT	No. cells reconstructed	CTb contacts (total)	VGAT +CTb	% VGAT
Contralateral Cells	4	8	733	169	23.1
	5	5	72	14	19.4
	6	7	427	76	17.8
Mean ± SD					20.1±2.7
Ipsilateral Cells	4	4	32	8	22.2
	5	5	62	12	19.4
	6	4	91	16	17.6
Mean ± SD					19.7±2.3