Evaluation of methods for eliciting somatosensory-evoked potentials in the awake, freely moving rat

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-90

  Stienen, Peter J ^a   Haberham, Zainal L ^a   Van Den Brom, Walter E ^a   De Groot, Harry N M ^a   Venker Van Haagen, Anjop J ^a   Hellebrekers, Ludo J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Awake, freely moving rat; A and A mediated responses; Nociception; Somatosensory system; Somatosensory evoked potential; Tactile system

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAIL; TRUNK; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0037841527     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(03)00070-0     Document Type: Article

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