Physiological measures of conduction velocity and refractory period for putative reward-relevant MFB axons arising in the rostral MFB

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 427-437

  Murray, Beverley ^a,b   Shizgal, Peter ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collision; Lateral hypothalamus; Magnocellular preoptic nucleus; Rat; Self stimulation; Substantia innominata; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULAR ANSA; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SELF STIMULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0029966358     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02077-2     Document Type: Article

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