ISSN:
1432-1106
Keywords:
Fastigial
;
Reticular formation
;
Vestibular nuclei
;
PSP
;
Disfacilitation
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Summary In anaesthetized cats, the fastigial nucleus of cerebellum was stimulated with electric pulse currents, and the effects thereby induced were investigated by recording intracellularly from cells in the medullary reticular formation, the nucleus of Deiters and the descending vestibular nucleus. The early effect commonly seen in these cells was initiation of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) with monosynaptic latencies from both sides of the fastigial nuclei. These EPSPs appeared to be produced in part by a kind of axon reflex through cerebellar afferent fibres, but a certain portion of them was ascribable to the crossed fastigiobulbar axons, as they were influenced by stimulation of the cerebellar cortex in the manner to be expected from the previous study on cerebellar nuclei. These EPSPs were followed by a sequence of a prolonged disfacilitatory hyperpolarization and a late facilitatory depolarization, which apparently reflected the inhibition and disinhibition, respectively, produced in fastigial neurones via Purkinje cell axons of the corticonuclear projection. Either EPSPs or IPSPs were also induced in both reticular and vestibular neurones through polysynaptic pathways in which the fastigiobulbar projection might have been involved.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00234200
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