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Influence of the Noradrenergic Coeruleospinal System on Recurrent Inhibition in the Spinal Cord and its Role During Postural Reflexes

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Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity

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Renshaw (R)-cells and recurrent inhibition of α-motoneurons can be influenced in the cat by a variety of excitatory and inhibitory inputs arising from supraspinal structures, such as the cerebral cortex (MacLean and Leffman 1967), the internal capsule (Koehler et al. 1978), the thalamus (MacLean and Leffman 1967), the red nucleus (Henatsch et al. 1986), the reticular formation (Koizumi et al. 1959; Haase and Van der Meulen 1961; MacLean and Leffman 1967; Haase and Vogel 1971) and the cerebellum (Granit et al. 1960; Haase and Van der Meulen 1961; see for ref. Pompeiano 1984). These excitatory or inhibitory volleys are of physiological importance, as they serve to increase or decrease the functional coupling between R-cells and their input motoneurons, thus modifying the input-output relation of α-motoneurons to a given excitatory input (Hultborn et al. 1979).

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Pompeiano, O. (1988). Influence of the Noradrenergic Coeruleospinal System on Recurrent Inhibition in the Spinal Cord and its Role During Postural Reflexes. In: Flohr, H. (eds) Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73849-4_24

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