Inactivation of the pons blocks medullary-induced muscle tone suppression in the decerebrate cat

Sleep

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 695-699

  Kohyama, Jun ^a   Lai, Yuan Yang ^a   Siegel, Jerome M ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atonia; Brainstem; Decerebrate cat; Lidocaine; Muscle tone; REM sleep; Reverberatory circuit

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCLE TONE; NECK MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP;

EID: 0032213771     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/21.7.695     Document Type: Article

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