Affiliation:
1. Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden
2. Department of Physiology and Biochemistry Poznań University of Physical Education Poznań Poland
Abstract
AbstractFew attempts have so far been made to define the mechanisms underlying the hour‐long effects of trans‐spinal stimulation combined with epidural polarization. In the present study, we investigated the potential involvement of non‐inactivating sodium channels in afferent fibres. To this end, riluzole, a blocker of these channels, was administered locally to the dorsal columns close to the site of the excitation of afferent nerve fibres by epidural stimulation in deeply anaesthetized rats in vivo. Riluzole did not prevent the induction of the polarization‐evoked sustained increase in the excitability of dorsal column fibres but tended to weaken it. It likewise weakened but did not abolish the sustained polarization‐evoked shortening of the refractory period of these fibres. These results lead to the conclusion that the persistent sodium current may contribute to the sustained post‐polarization‐evoked effects but is only partly involved in both the induction and the expression of these effects.
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