ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2008
Interaction between descending input and thoracic reflexes for joint coordination in cockroach: I. descending influence on thoracic sensory reflexes.
Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Thorax-Segment- and Leg-Segment-Specific Motor Control for Adaptive Behavior.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Descending and Ascending Signals That Maintain Rhythmic Walking Pattern in Crickets.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
- Distributed control of motor circuits for backward walking in Drosophila.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Body side-specific changes in sensorimotor processing of movement feedback in a walking insect.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
- A kinematic model of stick-insect walking.Physiological reports · 2019Article
- Article
- Force dynamics and synergist muscle activation in stick insects: the effects of using joint torques as mechanical stimuli.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Supraspinal control of spinal reflex responses to body bending during different behaviours in lampreys.The Journal of physiology · 2017Article
- Effects of functional decoupling of a leg in a model of stick insect walking incorporating three ipsilateral legs.Physiological reports · 2017Article
- Spatial Navigation and the Central Complex: Sensory Acquisition, Orientation, and Motor Control.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Review
- Mechanosensation and Adaptive Motor Control in Insects.Current biology : CB · 2016Review
- Endogenous rhythm and pattern-generating circuit interactions in cockroach motor centres.Biology open · 2016Article
- Article
- Sensory feedback in cockroach locomotion: current knowledge and open questions.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Review
- Deciding which way to go: how do insects alter movements to negotiate barriers?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2012Article
- Active tactile exploration for adaptive locomotion in the stick insect.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Article
- Interaction between descending input and thoracic reflexes for joint coordination in cockroach. II comparative studies on tethered turning and searching.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2008Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Tethered cockroaches turn from unilateral antennal contact using asymmetrical movements of mesothoracic (T2) legs (Mu and Ritzmann in J Comp Physiol A 191:1037-1054, 2005). During the turn, the leg on the inside of the turn (the inside T2 leg) has distinctly different motor patterns from those in straight walking. One possible neural mechanism for the transformation from walking to inside leg turning could be that the descending commands alter a few critical reflexes that start a cascade of physical changes in leg movement or posture, leading to further alterations. This hypothesis has two implications: first, the descending activities must be able to influence thoracic reflexes. Second, one should be able to initiate the turning motor pattern without descending signals by mimicking a point farther down in the reflex cascade. We addressed the first implication in this paper by experiments on chordotonal organ reflexes. The activity of depressor muscle (Ds) and slow extensor tibia muscle (SETi) was excited and inhibited by stretching and relaxing the femoral chordotonal organ. However, the Ds responses were altered after eliminating the descending activity, while the SETi responses remain similar. The inhibition to Ds activity by stretching the coxal chordotonal organ was also altered after eliminating the descending activity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.