Abstract: | The reorganization of the parameters of the efferent activity of the forelimb locomotion generator for electrical stimulation of the descending systems is determined in experiments on decerebrate immobilized cats. This generator is found to be characterized by a stable state at which the sum of influences of the signals from different descending systems on the generator is extremely limited. It is concluded that under the influence of these signals, the reorganizations of the activity of the locomotion generators of different limbs bring the motor program into a dynamic (or nearly dynamic) relationship with the supraspinal inflow, allowing for a sufficient limitation and balancing of the influences of the corresponding descending systems on the interneuronal networks determining the temporal and phase characteristics of the activity of these generators.A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 704–708, November–December, 1991. |