External inferior colliculus integrates trigeminal and acoustic information: Unit responses to trigeminal nucleus and acoustic stimulation in the guinea pig

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 395, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-75

  Jain, Roshini ^a   Shore, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

External nucleus of inferior colliculus; Multisensory integration; Trigeminal nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 31744439033     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.10.077     Document Type: Article

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