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Possibility of different effects of primary afferent depolarization on spinal reflexes

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The development of intensive depolarization of terminals through stimulation of the afferent nerve or dorsal root of sufficient strength causes the appearance of antidromic discharges recordable as a dorsal-root reflex. The discharges were shown to spread simultaneously in the dorso-ventral direction, with consequent facilitation of spinal reflexes. The results suggest the possible existence of two types of effect of presynaptic depolarization on spinal afferent pathways.

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Dnepropetrovsk State University. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 519–526, September–October, 1975.

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Krokhina, O.S., Shugurov, O.A. Possibility of different effects of primary afferent depolarization on spinal reflexes. Neurophysiology 7, 402–408 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067810

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