Modulation of Brachioradialis Motoneuron Excitabilities by Group I Fibers of the Median Nerve in Humans
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- Miyasaka Takuji
- Department of Medicine (Neurology), Shinshu University School of Medicine Department of Clinical Judo Seifuku Therapy III, Meiji University of Oriental Medicine
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- Naito Akira
- Department of Anatomy, Yamagata University School of Medicine
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- Shindo Masaomi
- National Nagano Hospital
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- Kobayashi Shinji
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yamagata University School of Medicine
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- Hayashi Masahiro
- Okitama-Sogo Hospital
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- Shinozaki Katsuhiro
- Department of Anesthesia, Yamagata University School of Medicine
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- Chishima Makoto
- Department of Occupational Therapy, Shinshu University School of Medicine
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Group I fibers from muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs modulate motoneuron excitabilities to coordinate smooth movements. In this study, to elucidate the effects of group I fibers of the median nerve (MN) on the excitabilities of the brachioradialis (BR), we evaluated the changes in the firing probability of a BR motor unit after electrical conditioning stimulation (CS) to MN with a post-stimulus time-histogram technique in six healthy human subjects. We tested 171 motor units: in 72 of them CS to MN at the elbow with the intensity just below the threshold of alpha motor fibers (MT) produced a facilitatory effect (facilitation), while in 43 of them it produced inhibitory one (inhibition). The facilitation and inhibition were not produced by electrical stimulation of the skin overlaying MN. The central synaptic delays of the facilitation and inhibition were on average -0.13 and 0.13 msec, respectively, longer than those of the homonymous facilitation mediated by a monosynaptic path. The thresholds of the facilitation and inhibition were less than 0.7-0.8 and 0.7-0.9 times MT, respectively. CS to MN of hand muscles produced facilitatory effects and that of the pronator teres, palmaris longus, and flexor carpi radialis inhibitory effects. The facilitatory and inhibitory effects were compatible, for latency, with the facilitation and inhibition. These findings suggest that BR motoneurons receive monosynaptic facilitation and oligosynaptic inhibition from MN in humans. Group I fibers of the hand and forearm muscles should mediate the facilitation and inhibition, respectively, to coordinate movements of the hand, forearm, and elbow.
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- The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
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The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine 212 (2), 115-131, 2007
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- CRID
- 1390282679217042944
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- NII論文ID
- 130004459581
- 10019574412
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- NII書誌ID
- AA00863920
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- COI
- 1:STN:280:DC%2BD2szjs1GisA%3D%3D
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- ISSN
- 13493329
- 00408727
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