Dorsal rhizotomy changes the spontaneous neuronal activity of nuclei in the medial thalamus

Physiological Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 279-283

  Vaculin S ^a   Franek M ^a   Rokyta, R ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Deafferentation; Medial thalamus; Single neuronal unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STELLATE GANGLION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; NEURONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHIZOTOMY; SELF MUTILATION;

EID: 0034122248     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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