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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 6, 463-474, Copyright © 1986 by Society for Neuroscience

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Functional metabolic mapping during forelimb movement in rat. II. Stimulation of forelimb muscles

EM Santori, T Der and RC Collins

Repetitive electrical stimulation of wrist extensor muscles in rat was combined with quantitative 14C-deoxyglucose autoradiography to study sensory systems functionally activated during forelimb movement. Metabolism increased ipsilaterally in the wrist extensors, the dorsal horn of the cervical spinal cord, the cuneate nucleus and cerebellar hemisphere. The metabolic activation in cerebellum occurred in cortex surrounding the primary fissure anteriorly (lobules simplex and V), and the prepyramidal fissure posteriorly (lobules paramedian and copula pyramis). Metabolism was increased in both granule cell and molecular layers and was uniform throughout the zone of activation. Hindlimb stimulation primarily activated the medial aspect of copula pyramis, demonstrating the somatotopic specificity of changes. Forelimb stimulation also activated contralateral sites in the dorsal accessory nucleus of the inferior olive, ventrobasal thalamus, and SI and SII in cortex. Studies of the relationship between the magnitude of the response and the frequency of the stimulation revealed a positive correlation in muscle, dorsal horn and cuneate nucleus. Other activated sites only showed a significant change at the highest rates of stimulation. Comparison of the pattern of metabolic activation during forelimb movements induced centrally (Collins et al., 1986) with the pattern induced peripherally revealed overlap primarily in the paramedian zone of anterior and posterior cerebellum, and the granular cortex of SI and SII. These studies suggest that forelimb movement initiated centrally would have considerable influence on feedback sensation from the moving limb in these sites.


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