Short-term facilitation in the anterior cingulate cortex following stimulation of the medial thalamus in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 1097, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-115

  Sun, Jyh Jang ^a   Chuang Kung, Jeng ^a   Wang, Chia Chuan ^b   Chen, Shin Lang ^a   Shyu, Bai Chuang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Current source density; Field potential; Medial thalamus; Pain; Paired pulse facilitation; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; PROTEIN C FOS; TUNGSTEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LATENT PERIOD; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 33745922400     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.065     Document Type: Article

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