Evidence for respiratory and locomotor pattern generators in the rabbit cervico-thoracic cord and for their interactions

Experimental Brain Research
D Viala, E Freton

Abstract

In addition to the wellknown fictive locomotion, a fictive respiration can also be obtained in decorticate, unanaesthetized rabbit preparations after curarization and vagotomy. Both patterns were abolished after high spinal (C2 or C3) transection. Spinal rhythmic capabilities could be disclosed after administration of nialamide and DOPA: together with the earlier demonstrated locomotor-like bursting in hindlimb and forelimb muscle nerves, two different types of phrenic bursting patterns could be observed, depending on endtidal CO2 levels: (1) short lasting phrenic bursts (SLPBs), coordinated with locomotor bursts, result of a locomotor driving process; (2) when end-tidal CO2 was slightly increased (4.5 instead of 4.0%), long lasting phrenic bursts (LLPBs) developed: they have no causal link with the locomotor bursts. Intraspinal interactions were shown to operate between these rhythmic patterns: (1) the already mentioned caudo-rostral driving from hindlimb or posterior locomotion generators (pLGs) onto forelimb bursting and onto phrenic activity too (providing SLPBs in the latter case); (2) the rostro-caudal inhibition of fore- and hindlimb locomotor activity throughout each LLPB. Since forelimb locomotor-like bursting and LLPB...Continue Reading

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