Recurrent inhibition of human firing motoneurons (experimental and modeling study)

Biological cybernetics
Maria PiotrkiewiczJ Mierzejewska

Abstract

Recurrent inhibition between tonically activated single human motoneurons was studied experimentally and by means of a computer simulation. Motor unit activity was recorded during weak isometric constant-force muscle contractions of brachial biceps (BB) and soleus (SOL) muscles. Three techniques (cross correlogram, frequencygram, and interspike interval analysis) were used to gauge the relations between single motor unit potential trains. Pure inhibition was detected in 5.6% of 54 BB motoneuron pairs and in 5.2% of 43 SOL motoneuron pairs. In 27.8% (BB) and 23.7% (SOL) presumed inhibition symptoms were accompanied by a synchrony peak; 37% (BB) and 48.8% (SOL) exhibited synchrony alone. The demonstrated inhibition was very weak, at the edge of detectability. Computer simulations were based on the threshold-crossing model of a tonically firing motoneuron. The model included synaptic noise as well as threshold and postsynaptic potential (PSP) amplitude change within interspike interval. Inhibition efficiency of the model neurons increased with IPSP amplitude and duration, and with increasing source firing rate. The efficiency depended on target motoneuron interspike interval in a manner similar to standard deviation of ISI. The mi...Continue Reading

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Dec 27, 2011·Experimental Brain Research·Maria Piotrkiewicz, Lydia Kudina
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