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Cutaneous Afferent Signal as a Modulator of the Heteronymous Influence of Primary Muscle Afferents

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The influence of cutaneous afferents of the medial plantar and sural nerves on the reflex excitability of thesoleusmuscle motoneurons and on reciprocal and nonreciprocal interactions between the gastrocnemius medialis, tibialis anterior, and soleusmuscles was studied in healthy volunteers by testing H-reflexes. Cutaneous afferents influenced reflex excitability of the soleusmotoneurons. Stimulation of cutaneous afferents changed the effects produced earlier by isolated stimulation of synergist and antagonist afferents. This confirms convergence of cutaneomuscular afferents on common interneurons. The authors postulate the existence of parallel “cutaneous” channels (including those with an alternative influence), whose hierarchy is determined by the situation and, probably, by some other individual features.

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    I. N. Pleshchinskii, R. Kh. Bikmullina, N. A. Shamshurina & R. Yu. Iskhakova

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Pleshchinskii, I.N., Bikmullina, R.K., Shamshurina, N.A. et al. Cutaneous Afferent Signal as a Modulator of the Heteronymous Influence of Primary Muscle Afferents. Human Physiology 27, 703–709 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012933211717

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