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1 Spinal Cord Research Centre and Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: myriam{at}scrc.umanitoba.ca.
We examined the features of spontaneous deletions of bursts of motoneuron activity that can occur within otherwise rhythmic alternating flexor and extensor activity during fictive locomotion and scratch in adult decerebrate cats. Deletions of activity were observed both in hindlimb flexor and extensor motoneuron pools during brainstem-stimulation evoked fictive locomotion but only in extensors during fictive scratch. Paired intracellular motoneuron recordings showed that deletions reduced the depolarization of homonymous motoneurons in qualitatively similar ways. Differences occurred in the extent to which activity in synergist motoneuron pools operating at other joints within the limb was reduced during deletions. The timing of the rhythmic activity that followed a deletion was often at an integer multiple of the pre-existing locomotor or scratch cycle period. This maintenance of cycle period was also seen during deletions in which there was a complete failure of motoneuron depolarization. The activity of antagonist motoneurons was usually sustained during deletions with some rhythmic modulation at intervals of the pre-existing cycle period. We discuss an organization of the central pattern generator for locomotion and scratch that functions as a single rhythm generator with separate and multiple pattern formation modules for controlling the hyper- and depolarization of subsets of motoneurons within the limb.
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