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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 1998, 18(24):10629-10639
Extraocular Motor Unit and Whole-Muscle Responses in the Lateral Rectus Muscle of the Squirrel Monkey
Stephen J. Goldberg1, M. Alex Meredith1, and Mary S. Shall2 Departments of 1 Anatomy and 2 Physical Therapy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23298-0709
Because primate studies provide data for the current experimental models of the human oculomotor system, we investigated the relationship of lateral rectus muscle motoneuron firing to muscle unit contractile characteristics in the squirrel monkey. Also examined was the correlation of whole-muscle contractile force with the degree of evoked eye displacement. A force transducer was used to record lateral rectus whole-muscle or muscle unit contraction in response to abducens whole-nerve stimulation or stimulation of single abducens motoneurons or axons. Horizontal eye displacement was recorded using a magnetic search coil.
(1) Motor units could be categorized based on contraction speed (fusion frequency) and fatigue. (2) The kt value (change in motoneuronal firing necessary to increase motor unit force by 1.0 mg) of the units correlated with maximum tetanic tension. (3) There was some tendency for maximum tetanic tension of this unit population to separate into three groups. (4) At a constant frequency of 100 Hz, 95% of the motor units demonstrated significantly different force levels dependent on immediately previous stimulation history (hysteresis). (5) A mean force change of 0.32 gm/° and a mean frequency change of 4.7 Hz/° of eye displacement were observed in response to whole-nerve stimulation.
These quantitative data provide the first contractile measures of primate extraocular motor units. Models of eye movement dynamics may need to consider the nonlinear transformations observed between stimulation rate and muscle tension as well as the probability that as few as two to three motor units can deviate the eye 1°.
Key words: extraocular; eye movement; abducens; motoneuron; monkey; oculomotor
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