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REFLEX

Ginus Partadiredja
Department of Physiology
REFLEX: A Fast, automatic, predictable involuntary response
to a particular stimulus

REFLEX: - Inborn (pulling hand away from a hot surface)
- Acquired (Driving expertise)

REFLEX: 1. Somatic (skeletal muscle)
2. Autonomic (glands, cardiac & smooth muscle)

REFLEX: 1. Spinal reflex
2. Cranial reflex

REFLEX ARC COMPONENTS:
Sensory receptor Sensory/ afferent neuron Integrating
center Motor/ Efferent neuron Effector
REFLEX: 1. Monosynaptic reflex (e.g. stretch reflex)
2. Polysynaptic reflex (e.g. withdrawal reflex)
SOMATIC SPINAL REFLEXES

1. Stretch reflex
2. Tendon reflex
3. Flexor (withdrawal reflex)
4. Crossed extensor reflex

1. STRETCH (MYOTATIC) REFLEX

- Control muscle length muscle contraction response
- Monosynaptic reflex
- Tapping tendons at the elbow (biceps & triceps reflexes),
wrist, knee (knee jerk/ patellar reflex), ankle (Achilles
reflex)
Biceps reflex



Triceps reflex
Patellar
reflex
Achilles reflex

PATELLAR REFLEX: Tendon Muscle spindle Ia afferent
neuron Spinal cord motor neuron excited
- Monosynaptic, ipsilateral reflex
- Reciprocal innervation polysynaptic antagonistic muscle
inhibited
MUSCLES:
1. Extrafusal
2. Intrafusal (muscle spindle) fibres

MUSCLE SPINDLE:
1. Nuclear bag fibre
2. Nuclear chain fibre

SENSORY NEURONS:
1. Nuclear bag fibre Ia afferent fibres
2. Nuclear chain fibre Ia and II afferent fibres

MOTOR NEURONS:
1. Extrafusal fibres Alpha motor neuron
2. Intrafusal fibres Gamma motor neuron
Nuclear bag fibres dynamic stretch reflex stretch
Nuclear chain fibres static stretch reflex reflex

GAMMA MOTOR NEURON:
- Regulated by the brain, voluntary
- Smooth out the movement during muscle contractions
- Preventing jerky movements
- Alpha & gamma motor neurons are stimulated
simultaneously
2. TENDON REFLEX

- Control muscle tension
muscle relaxation response
- Polysynaptic, ipsilateral
- Golgi tendon organs Ib
afferent neuron Spinal cord

a.Inhibitory interneuron Motor
neuron inhibited/ muscle relaxes
b.Excitatory interneuron Motor
neuron excited/ antagonistic
muscle contracts
3. FLEXOR REFLEX
- Withdrawal reflex
- Polysynaptic, ipsilateral, intersegmental
- Pain receptor Sensory neuron Integrating center
Interneuron Motor neuron Ipsilateral flexor muscles
- Reciprocal innervation extensor muscles
WITHDRAWAL
REFLEX:

- Polysynaptic

- Ipsilateral

- Intersegmental
4. CROSSED EXTENSOR REFLEX

- Polysynaptic, contralateral,
intersegmental

- Contralateral reflex arc

- Pain receptor Sensory neuron
Integrating center
Interneuron Motor neuron
Contralateral extensor muscles

- Reciprocal innervation Flexor
muscles
DIAGNOSTICS

1. Muscle tone
- Poliomyelitis hypotonia/ atonia
- Stroke hypertonia
- Muscle spasm (broken bone, peritonitis), cramps

2. Reflex
- Afferent fibers/ lower motor neuron lesions (e.g. poliomyelitis,
diabetes, syphilis) hyporeflexia
- Descending motor pathways from the brain (e.g. stroke)
hyperreflexia
- Mass reflex
3. Patellar reflex
Diabetes mellitus, neurosyphilis decrease/ absent
Motor tracts descending from the brain disorders
increase/ hyperreflexia

4. Achilles reflex
Diabetes mellitus, neurosyphilis, alcoholism,
subarachnoid hemorrhages decrease/ absent
Cervical cord compression, motor tracts lesion
increase

5. Abdominal reflex
6. Pupillary light reflex (autonomic reflex) brain injury
indicator
7. Babinski sign
References
Carola R, Harley JP, Noback, CR (1990).
Human Anatomy and Physiology, Chapter 12,
Pages: 346-450.
Ganong WF (2005). Review of Medical
Physiology, 22
nd
ed. Chapter 6, Pages: 129-
137.
Guyton AC & Hall JE (2006). Textbook of
Medical Physiology, 11
th
ed. Chapter 54,
Pages: 673-684.
Tortora GJ & Derrickson B (2006). Principles
of Anatomy and Physiology, 11
th
ed. Chapter
13, Pages: 460-467.

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