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SINCE the investigations of Renshaw1 and Eccles et al.2 on the central inhibitory action of antidromic impulses in motoneuronal axons, indirect evidence has accumulated which suggests that a similar mechanism occurs at higher levels of the neuraxis3. Physiological identification of neural units responsible for such effects has proved to be technically difficult. Andersen et al.4 recently published records of presumed inhibitory interneurones from the ventrobasal complex of the thalamus.
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Renshaw, B., J. Neurophysiol., 4, 167 (1941).
Eccles, J. C., Fatt, P., and Koketsu, K., J. Physiol., 126, 524 (1954).
Eccles, J. C., in The Physiology of Synapses (Academic Press Inc., Publishers, New York, 1964).
Andersen, P., Eccles, J. C., and Sears, T. A., J. Physiol., 174, 370 (1964).
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MARCO, L., BROWN, T. Thalamic Inhibitory Interneurone. Nature 210, 1388–1389 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101388a0
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