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Age-related features in the formation of spinal inhibition of skeletal muscles in males

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Age-related features of spinal inhibition were studied in males at relative muscle rest. Main developmental stages were identified for spinal inhibition, including the periods when the relevant processes grow weaker or more intense. Heterochrony was observed for the development of particular spinal inhibition types, i.e., their definitive developmental stages were achieved at different ages: 9–12 years of age for presynaptic inhibition of heteronymous Ia afferents and reciprocal inhibition of homonymous α motoneurons, 17–18 years of age for recurrent inhibition of heteronymous α motoneurons, and 14–15 years of age for nonreciprocal inhibition of heteronymous and homonymous α motoneurons. Teenage age was identified as a critical period in the development of presynaptic inhibition of heteronymous and homonymous Ia afferents and recurrent inhibition of α motoneurons. The physiological mechanisms underlying the above age-related regularities are discussed.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Chelnokov, R.M. Gorodnichev, 2015, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 86–94.

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Chelnokov, A.A., Gorodnichev, R.M. Age-related features in the formation of spinal inhibition of skeletal muscles in males. Hum Physiol 41, 644–651 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S036211971506002X

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