Abstract
Field potentials evoked in the graunular layer of the cerebellar paramedian lobule of unanesthetized cats in response to stimulation of the sensomotor cortex and limb nerves contained slow negative waves, appearing after a long latent period, which were generated by granule cells. In the case of nerve stimulation this component was recorded both inside and outside the projection zone of the corresponding limb. Cortical stimulation by single stimuli or series of stimuli not more than 1.8–2.5 times above threshold strength led to the appearance of evoked potentials only inside the corresponding projection zone. The long-latency component of field potentials evoked by cerebral stimulation followed high frequencies of repetitive stimulation and was less sensitive to the action of barbital anesthesia than the analogous component of potentials evoked by nerve stimulation. In the case of combined cerebral and nerve stimulation the long-latency components underwent summation. It is concluded that mossy fibers of slowly-conducting spino- and cerebrocerebellar tracts innervate different granule cells in the cerebellar cortex.
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Institute of Problems in Information Transmission, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 379–385, July–August, 1982.
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Arshavskii, Y.I., Berkinblit, M.B., Popova, L.B. et al. Analysis of long-latency components of field potentials evoked by stimulation of the cerebral cortex and nerves in the cerebellar paramedian lobule. Neurophysiology 14, 284–289 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01058737
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