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Transmission of impulsation from the visceral nerves to the bulbar reticular formation in the cat is effected by two systems of conductive pathways. The first (fast-conducting) is formed by the spinoreticular pathways of the lateral funiculi. This system activates reticular neurons with a latent period of 8–10 msec. The second system is made up of the polysynaptic pathways of the ventrolateral and ventral funiculi. Activation of reticular neurons through this pathway requires 10–20 msec or longer. Transection of the dorsal funiculi and the dorsal portion of the lateral funiculi causes no material changes in the synaptic activation of reticular neurons by visceral nerves.
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A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 177–185, September–October, 1969.
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Preobrazhenskii, N.N., Limanskii, Y.P. Activation of bulbar reticular neurons by visceral afferents. Neurophysiology 1, 135–141 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063183
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