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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 1, 2003, 23(5):1867
Neuronal Basis of Crossed Actions from the Reticular Formation on Feline Hindlimb Motoneurons
Elzbieta Jankowska1, Ingela Hammar1, Urszula Slawinska1, Katarzyna Maleszak1, and Stephen A. Edgley2 1 Department of Physiology, Göteborg University, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden, and 2 Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom 3B2 3DY
Pathways through which reticulospinal neurons can influence contralateral limb movements were investigated by recording from motoneurons innervating hindlimb muscles. Reticulospinal tract fibers were stimulated within the brainstem or in the lateral funiculus of the thoracic spinal cord contralateral to the motoneurons. Effects evoked by ipsilaterally descending reticulospinal tract fibers were eliminated by a spinal hemisection at an upper lumbar level. Stimuli applied in the brainstem evoked EPSPs, IPSPs, or both at latencies of 1.42 ± 0.03 and 1.53 ± 0.04 msec, respectively, from the first components of the descending volleys and with properties indicating a disynaptic linkage, in most contralateral motoneurons: EPSPs in 76% and IPSPs in 26%. EPSPs with characteristics of monosynaptically evoked responses, attributable to direct actions of crossed axon collaterals of reticulospinal fibers, were found in a small proportion of the motoneurons, whether evoked from the brainstem (9%) or from the thoracic cord (12.5%). Commissural neurons, which might mediate the crossed disynaptic actions (i.e., were antidromically activated from contralateral motor nuclei and monosynaptically excited from the ipsilateral reticular formation), were found in Rexed's lamina VIII in the midlumbar segments (L3-L5). The results reveal that although direct actions of reticulospinal fibers are much more potent on ipsilateral motoneurons, interneuronally mediated actions are as potent contralaterally as ipsilaterally, and midlumbar commissural neurons are likely to contribute to them. They indicate a close coupling between the spinal interneuronal systems used by the reticulospinal neurons to coordinate muscle contractions ipsilaterally and contralaterally.
Key words: spinal cord; reticulospinal neurons; commissural neurons; motoneurons; interneurons; spinal neuronal networks
Copyright © 2003 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/03/2351867-12$05.00/0
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