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Postural responses in the cat to unexpected rotations of the supporting surface: evidence for a centrally generated synergic organization.

Abstract：

:Postural reactions to disruptions of stance are rapid and automatic in both quadrupeds and bipeds. Current evidence suggests that these postural responses are generated by the central nervous system as patterns involving muscle synergies. This study attempted to test this hypothesis of a centrally generated postural mechanism by determining whether the same postural response could be evoked in the freely-standing cat under two different biomechanical conditions. The present work is an extension of previous experiments in which the stance of cats was perturbed by a horizontal translation of the supporting surface in the anterior and posterior directions (Rushmer et al. 1983). We now tested whether simple rotation of the metacarpo- and metatarsophalangeal (M-P) joints that mimics the digit rotation occurring during platform translation, was sufficient to evoke the translation postural response. The rotational perturbations were biomechanically different from translations in that the rotation did not cause displacement of the centre of mass of the animal, nor did it result in any significant movement about any but the M-P joints. Even so, rotational perturbations did evoke the appropriate translational muscle synergies in all four animals. Both plantar flexion rotation and headward translation activated the posterior hindlimb synergy (which included gluteus medius, semitendinosus and lateral gastrocnemius). Similarly, dorsiflexion rotation and tailward translation both activated the same anterior hindlimb synergy (iliopsoas, vastus lateralis and tibialis anterior) together with the forelimb synergy The postural responses elicited by rotational perturbations were biomechanically inappropriate, and caused the animal to displace its own centre of mass away from the stable, control position.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Exp Brain Res

journal_title

Experimental brain research

authors

Macpherson JM,Rushmer DS,Dunbar DC

doi

10.1007/BF00237411

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-01-01 00:00:00

pages

152-60

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eissn

0014-4819

issn

1432-1106

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Postural responses in the cat to unexpected rotations of the supporting surface: evidence for a centrally generated synergic organization.