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J Neurophysiol 72: 2590-2597, 1994;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 72, Issue 6 2590-2597, Copyright © 1994 by APS

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Grouping of somatosensory neurons in the spinal cord and the gracile nucleus of the rat by cluster analysis

J. W. Leem, B. H. Lee, W. D. Willis and J. M. Chung
Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0843.

1. A set of 11 cutaneous stimuli defined previously to differentiate among different types of cutaneous sensory receptors in the rat hindpaw was also effective in differentially activating second-order sensory neurons in the dorsal horn and the gracile nucleus of rats. 2. All sampled units were responsive to more than 1 of the 11 stimuli. However, none responded to innocuous warming or cooling stimuli. Therefore further analysis was restricted to responses to nine of the selected stimuli. 3. Cluster analysis of the responses to nine selected innocuous and noxious mechanical stimuli and noxious thermal stimuli yielded seven classes that seemed functionally distinct from each other: a class of high-threshold neurons, three classes of convergent (wide dynamic range) neurons, a class of a mixture of poorly responsive neurons and neurons receiving Pacinian inputs, and two classes of low-threshold neurons. 4. High-threshold neurons responded predominantly to noxious mechanical and thermal stimuli and presumably received an input from both mechanically and thermally sensitive nociceptors. These cells were located in the dorsal horn, and some were spinothalamic tract cells. Wide dynamic range neurons were excited by innocuous and noxious stimuli, but better by noxious stimuli. These classes of cells were either in the dorsal horn (some were spinothalamic tract cells) or in the nucleus gracilis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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