Structure of spinal cord locomotor strip in the cat
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1Department of Physiology of the Spinal Cord, A. A. Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR, Kiev.
Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The origin of spinal locomotor strip fibers was studied in the cat by means of electrical stimulation combined with horse-radish peroxidase transport technique. It was revealed that a corticospinal tract presumably formed the locomotor strip. Some reticulospinal and trigeminal tract fibers were also found. Descending catecholaminergic fibers do not pass through the investigated regions of dorsolateral funiculus; probably they are not a part of the spinal locomotor strip.