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Response patterns of vestibulospinal neurons to lumbar rotation in decerebrate rats
Feng Tian1, Sei-etsu Fujiwara, Takashi Yamaguchi
1Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992-8510, Japan.
The Japanese Journal of Physiology
|January 26, 2005
Abstract:
In vestibulospinal neurons projecting to the lumbar enlargement, activities were modulated in response to alternate tilts of the caudal body around the vertebral axis. Three types of neurons were found: Type I (37.8%) showed faster firing during the ipsilateral side-down tilt; type II (51.1%) showed the reverse pattern; type III were unaffected. Types I and II may be important in the tonic lumbar reflex.

