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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 201, Issue 9 1283-1294, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists

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Neuronal mechanisms underlying the facilitatory control of uropod steering behaviour during treadmill walking in crayfish. I. Antagonistically regulated background excitability of uropod motoneurones

M Murayama and M Takahata

One of the postural reflexes of crayfish, the uropod steering response, is elicited by specific sensory inputs while the animal is walking. It is not elicited, however, by the same inputs when the animal is at rest. To clarify the neuronal mechanisms underlying this facilitatory control of body posture in the active animals, we used intracellular recordings to analyse the synaptic activities of uropod motor system neurones in an unanaesthetized whole-animal preparation. Several uropod motoneurones were found to receive sustained depolarizing inputs during walking, whereas the walking leg motoneurones sampled always showed rhythmic activity. The membrane conductance of the uropod motoneurones increased during the sustained synaptic activity. Premotor nonspiking interneurones showed depolarizing or hyperpolarizing membrane potential changes during walking that were also accompanied by increases in membrane conductance. Some of these interneurones enhanced uropod motoneurone activity, whereas others suppressed it during walking. These results suggest that the background excitability of uropod motoneurones is kept at an intermediate level during walking by the antagonistic inputs from premotor nonspiking interneurones so that the uropod motor system can be responsive to both further excitatory and inhibitory inputs resulting from postural changes. <P>


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