Impaired crossed facilitation of the corticospinal pathway after cervical spinal cord injury

Bunday, K.L. and Perez, M.A. 2012. Impaired crossed facilitation of the corticospinal pathway after cervical spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00850.2011

TitleImpaired crossed facilitation of the corticospinal pathway after cervical spinal cord injury
TypeJournal article
AuthorsBunday, K.L. and Perez, M.A.
Abstract

In uninjured humans, it is well established that voluntary contraction of muscles on one side of the body can facilitate transmission in the contralateral corticospinal pathway. This crossed facilitatory effect may favor interlimb coordination and motor performance. Whether this aspect of corticospinal function is preserved after chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) is unknown. Here, using transcranial magnetic stimulation, we show in patients with chronic cervical SCI (C5–C8) that the size of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in a resting intrinsic hand muscle remained unchanged during increasing levels of voluntary contraction with a contralateral distal or proximal arm muscle. In contrast, MEP size in a resting hand muscle was increased during the same motor tasks in healthy control subjects. The magnitude of voluntary electromyography was negatively correlated with MEP size after chronic cervical SCI and positively correlated in healthy control subjects. To examine the mechanisms contributing to MEP crossed facilitation we examined short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), interhemispheric inhibition (IHI), and motoneuronal behavior by testing F waves and cervicomedullary MEPs (CMEPs). During strong voluntary contractions SICI was unchanged after cervical SCI and decreased in healthy control subjects compared with rest. F-wave amplitude and persistence and CMEP size remained unchanged after cervical SCI and increased in healthy control subjects compared with rest. In addition, during strong voluntary contractions IHI was unchanged in cervical SCI compared with rest. Our results indicate that GABAergic intracortical circuits, interhemispheric glutamatergic projections between motor cortices, and excitability of index finger motoneurons are neural mechanisms underlying, at least in part, the lack of crossed corticospinal facilitation observed after SCI. Our data point to the spinal motoneurons as a critical site for modulating corticospinal transmission after chronic cervical SCI.

JournalJournal of Neurophysiology
ISSN0022-3077
1522-1598
Year2012
PublisherAmerican Physiological Society
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00850.2011
PubMed ID22357796
Web address (URL)http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22357796
Publication dates
Published15 May 2012

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