Discharge properties of single neurons in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus of the rat

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 595-610

  Bajo, Victoria M ^a,b   Villa, Alessandro E P ^a   De Ribaupierre, François ^a   Rouiller, Eric M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acoustic stimulation; Auditory physiology; Brain stem; Extracellular single unit recording; Spontaneous activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; NOISE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0032465512     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(98)00127-0     Document Type: Article

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