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Timing of Knee-Related Spinal Neurons During Fictive Rostral Scratching in the Turtle

Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

Submitted 6 August 2003; accepted in final form 4 September 2003

Knee-flexor motor activity rhythmically alternated with knee-extensor motor activity during fictive rostral scratching in the spinal turtle. A critical transition from knee-flexor motor activity to knee-extensor motor activity occurred during hip-flexor motor activity. A key feature of this transition was that the end-phases of knee-flexor motor activity were positively correlated with the start-phases of knee-extensor motor activity. We studied spinal interneurons with activities related to this transition. We previously used single-unit recording techniques to characterize a data set of descending propriospinal interneurons during rostral scratching. We focused here on a group of interneurons from this data set with start-phases (ON-units) or with end-phases (OFF-units) near the start of knee-extensor motor activity. We showed that, for a subset of these units, the start-phases of ON-units and the end-phases of OFF-units were positively correlated with the start-phases of knee-extensor motor activity. We present the hypothesis that some of these knee-related ON- and OFF-units may play a role in timing knee motor activity during rostral scratching.

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