Table 1.
Responses of mvCN and rvCN cells to cerebral cortical stimulation
| Tested | Responded | Antidromic to ML (CL cells) | Motor cortex alone |
Area 3a alone |
MCx + 3a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firing increase | Firing decrease | Firing increase | Firing decrease | Firing increase | Firing decrease | ||||
| mvCN | 103 | 96 (93%) | 58 (56.3%) | 38 (36.9%) | 12 (11.6%) | 15 (14.6%) | 8 (7.8%) | 16 (15.5%) | 7 (6.8%) |
| 27 CL | 7 CL | 9 CL | 3 CL | 8 CL | 4 CL | ||||
| rvCN | 46 | 33 (72%) | 3 (6.5%) | 9 (19.6%) | 7 (15.2%) | 5 (10.9%) | 3 (6.5%) | 6 (13%) | 4 (8.7%) |
| 1 CL | 1 CL | 1 CL | |||||||
| Total | 149 | 129 (86.6%) | 61 (41%) | 47 (31.5%) | 19 (12.7%) | 20 (13.4%) | 11 (7.4%) | 22 (14.8%) | 11 (7.4%) |