Physiological properties of unmyelinated fiber projection to the spinal cord

LM Mendell - Experimental neurology, 1966 - Elsevier
Sixty per cent of the cells in the spinocervical tract responding monosynaptically to
stimulation of peripheral myelinated fibers were found to respond also to stimulation of …

Strength‐duration characteristics of myelinated and non‐myelinated bulbospinal axons in the cat spinal cord.

DC West, JH Wolstencroft - The Journal of Physiology, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Strength‐duration characteristics for the stimulation of 131 raphespinal and reticulospinal
axons in the spinal cord were determined using two types of stimulating electrode …

A quantitative study of electrical stimulation of central myelinated fibers

SL BeMent, JB Ranck Jr - Experimental neurology, 1969 - Elsevier
Quantitative extracellular electrical stimulation data were obtained from single fibers in the
dorsal columns of anesthetized and paralyzed cats. Single-fiber responses were recorded …

Myelinated afferent fibres responding specifically to noxious stimulation of the skin

PR Burgess, ER Perl - The Journal of physiology, 1967 - Wiley Online Library
1. The characteristics of receptors from the hairy skin of the hind limb of cat were studied by
recording from single primary afferent fibres with fine micropipettes. The distinctive features …

Characteristics of spinal neurones responding to cutaneous myelinated and unmyelinated fibres

M Gregor, M Zimmermann - The Journal of Physiology, 1972 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
discharged upon a cutaneous Afibre stimulus; steady-state discharge in suppressed by a
preceding discharge of the neurone in res Page 1 J. Phy8iol. (1972), 221, pp. 555-576 555 With …

Factors forming the edge of a receptive field: the presence of relatively ineffective afferent terminals

EG Merrill, PD Wall - The Journal of physiology, 1972 - Wiley Online Library
A specialized type of spinal cord cell has its cell body in lamina IV and has a small low
threshold cutaneous receptive field which is remarkable for its abrupt edge. No signs could …

Cortically evoked depolarization of primary afferent fibers in the spinal cord

P Andersen, JC Eccles… - Journal of …, 1964 - journals.physiology.org
METHODS The experiments were performed on cats lightly anesthetized with pentobarbital
sodium. The experimental techniques resembled those previously reported for comparable …

The effect of electric polarization of the spinal cord on central afferent fibres and on their excitatory synaptic action

JC Eccles, PG Kostyuk, RF Schmidt - The Journal of Physiology, 1962 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
METHODS The experiments were performed on the lumbar spinal cord of lightly
anaesthetized (pentobarbital sodium) cats with spinal cords severed at the second lumbar …

Activity‐dependent excitability changes in normal and demyelinated rat spinal root axons.

H Bostock, P Grafe - The Journal of physiology, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
Myelinated nerve fibres with a reduced safety factor for conduction due to demyelination are
easily blocked by trains of impulses. To find out why, in vivo recordings from rat ventral root …

Response of cutaneous sensory units with unmyelinated fibers to noxious stimuli.

P Bessou, ER Perl - Journal of neurophysiology, 1969 - journals.physiology.org
METHODS Data were collected from 37 experiments on adult cats maintained in an areflexic
state by sodium pentobarbital. End-tidal CO, was continuously sampled from a cannula in …