期刊
NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
卷 72, 期 2, 页码 155-162出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.10.006
关键词
Muscle inflammation; Carrageenan; Spinal reflex transmission; Muscle afferents; Sensorimotor control
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG SCHO) [37/16-1]
The contribution of activated nociceptive muscle afferents to pathologically increased muscle tone remains obscure. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether an acute myositis of the gastrocnemius-soleus (GS) influences spinal reflex activity and to test whether A delta-fibre or C-fibre were mainly responsible for any effects. In high spinal cats monosynaptic reflexes (MRs) of flexors and extensors and transmission in reflex pathways from group III and IV muscle afferents (activated by intra-arterial KCI injection) were investigated. After infiltration of GS with carrageenan there was a distinct increase in the MRs of flexors and extensors, coupled with facilitation of the flexors, induced by chemically activated group III and IV afferents. The inhibition evoked in extensors by these afferents was also mainly enhanced but less consistently. The reflex effects of carrageenan started within 1 h and reached their maximum after about 1.5 h. After blocking the input of all myelinated A-fibres, including A delta-fibres, from the inflamed muscle by TTX, only a small facilitatory effect on MRs remained and the facilitation of excitatory transmission in the excitatory pathway to the flexor PBSt was abolished. The results show that the action of carrageenan-induced inflammation on spinal reflex function derives mainly from A delta-fibres. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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