Somatosensory stimulus entrains spindle oscillations in the thalamic VPL nucleus in barbiturate anesthetized rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 191-194

  Muthuswamy, J ^a   Tran, P ^a   Rangarajan, R ^a   Lenz, F A ^b   Hanley, D F ^c   Thakor, N V ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Spindle oscillations; Thalamic ventral posterior lateral (VPL) nucleus

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PENTOBARBITAL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; OSCILLOMETRY; PENTOBARBITAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033548408     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00081-6     Document Type: Article

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