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Institute of Physiology and Biophysics, Lund University, Sweden.

1. Climbing fibre responses evoked on stimulation of the ipsilateral superficial radial nerve were examined in the forelimb area of the C3 zone in the barbiturate-anaesthetized cat. Climbing fibre responses were recorded in sixty-five Purkinje cells and as field potentials from the surface of the cerebellum. 2. In addition to the previously described A beta-fibre-evoked climbing fibre response, late climbing fibre responses were consistently evoked in all Purkinje cells studied when C fibres were stimulated. The latencies of the A beta- and C-fibre-evoked climbing fibre responses were 11-20 ms and 110-220 ms, respectively. In most experiments climbing fibre responses with an intermediate latency (20-30 ms) were evoked. It was demonstrated that this response depended on A delta fibres. 3. The long-latency climbing fibre response generated by electrical stimulation at C-fibre strength was evoked also during selective anodal block of conduction in A fibres (Brown & Hamman, 1972). Hence, impulses in C fibres were sufficient for generation of climbing fibre responses. 4. The distribution within the forelimb area of the C3 zone of the A beta- and C-fibre-evoked climbing fibre field potential was similar. No climbing fibre response was evoked in this area of the C3 zone by stimulation of A and C fibres in the contralateral superficial radial nerve or in the plantar nerves of the hind limbs. 5. It can be concluded that climbing fibres projecting to the forelimb area of the C3 zone in the cerebellum receive a somatotopically organized input from both A beta and C fibres.

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