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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 64, Issue 1 233-249, Copyright © 1976 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Properties of the trochanteral hair plate and its function in the control of walking in the cockroach

RK Wong and KG Pearson

1. The physiological properties of the group of long hair sensilla of the trochanteral hair plate in the cockroach metathoracic leg were studied. The sensilla were divided into type I and type II according to their responses to imposed displacements. 2. Type I hair sensilla responded to dynamic displacements whereas type II hair sensilla responded to both dynamic and static displacements. The hair sensilla are normally excited by phasic flexion movements of the femur near the end of leg protraction. 3. Activity in the trochanteral hair plate afferents had a short latency excitatory effect on the motoneurone producing slow extension movements of the femur and an inhibitory effect on the femur flexor motoneurones. 4. Removal of the trochanteral hair plate in one leg caused overstepping of that leg in a walking animal due to exaggerated flexion of the femur. This change in leg movement can be explained by the removal of the inhibitory influence from the hair plate afferents to the femur flexor motoneurones. 5. We conclude that one function of the trochanteral hair plate is to limit femur flexion during a step cycle.


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