The influence of muscle spindle discharge on the human H reflex and the monosynaptic reflex in the cat

The Journal of Physiology
S A WoodU Proske

Abstract

1. Experiments were carried out to test the effect of changes in spindle resting discharge on the size of monosynaptic reflexes in the cat and on the H reflex in humans. Resting discharge was altered by contracting the triceps surae muscle at longer (hold-long) or shorter (hold-short) lengths than that at which the reflex was tested. 2. The reflex in the cat was larger after hold-long than after hold-short conditioning, and the difference, after an initial decline, was well maintained. For the human H reflex a similar pattern was observed except that 15 s after muscle conditioning the difference in reflex size had disappeared. 3. Monosynaptic reflex depression immediately after hold-long conditioning, when most of the muscle spindles are silent, was attributed to the high level of spindle discharge during the immediately preceding hold-long period. The time course of this inhibition was too long to be accounted for by presynaptic inhibition. 4. In the cat heteronymous muscle conditioning was used to test whether presynaptic inhibition could be responsible for reflex depression using the synergist muscle pair lateral gastrocnemius-soleus and medial gastrocnemius. Conditioning one of the pair did not affect the reflex in the othe...Continue Reading

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