Functional organization of vestibulospinal inputs on thoracic motoneurons responsible for trunk postural control in Xenopus.
Xenopus
lumbar
motoneuron
posture
spinal cord
thoracic
vestibular
Journal
The Journal of physiology
ISSN: 1469-7793
Titre abrégé: J Physiol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0266262
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2020
02 2020
Historique:
received:
10
07
2019
accepted:
08
11
2019
pubmed:
14
12
2019
medline:
12
2
2021
entrez:
14
12
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Vestibulospinal reflexes participate in postural control. How this is achieved has not been investigated fully. We combined electrophysiological, neuroanatomical and imaging techniques to decipher the vestibulospinal network controlling the activation of back and limb muscles responsible for postural adjustments. We describe two distinct pathways activating either thoracic postural motoneurons alone or thoracic and lumbar motoneurons together, with the latter co-ordinating specifically hindlimb extensors and postural back muscles. In vertebrates, trunk postural stabilization is known to rely mainly on direct vestibulospinal inputs on spinal axial motoneurons. However, a substantial role of central spinal commands ascending from lumbar segments is not excluded during active locomotion. In the adult Xenopus, a lumbar drive dramatically overwhelms the descending inputs onto thoracic postural motoneurons during swimming. Given that vestibulospinal fibres also project onto the lumbar segments that shelter the locomotor generators, we investigated whether such a lumbo-thoracic pathway may relay vestibular information and consequently, also be involved in the control of posture at rest. We show that thoracic postural motoneurons exhibit particular dendritic spatial organization allowing them to gather information from both sides of the cord. In response to passive head motion, these motoneurons display both early and delayed discharges, with the latter occurring in phase with ipsilateral hindlimb extensor bursts. We demonstrate that both vestibulospinal and lumbar ascending fibres converge onto postural motoneurons, and that thoracic motoneurons monosynaptically respond to the electrical stimulation of either pathway. Finally, we show that vestibulospinal fibres project to and activate lumbar interneurons with thoracic projections. Taken together, our results complete the scheme of the vestibulospinal control of posture by illustrating the existence of a novel, indirect pathway, which implicates lumbar interneurons relaying vestibular inputs to thoracic motoneurons, and participating in global body postural stabilization in the absence of active locomotion.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
817-838Informations de copyright
© 2019 The Authors. The Journal of Physiology © 2019 The Physiological Society.
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