Anesthetics eliminate somatosensory-evoked discharges of neurons in the somatotopically organized sensorimotor striatum of the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 9055-9068

  West, Mark O ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Corticostriatal; Neurons; Neurophysio logy; Putamen; Somatosensory; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CHLORAL HYDRATE; KETAMINE; METHOXYFLURANE; PENTOBARBITAL; URETHAN;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPOLARIZATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0032211073     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-09055.1998     Document Type: Article

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