Spontaneous discharge characteristic of neurons in the ventromedial nucleus of the rat hypothalamus in vivo

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 693-706

  Sabatier, Nancy ^a   Leng, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hazard function; Interspike interval; Oscillatory firing

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAZARD; HISTOGRAM; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; RHYTHM; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 49249113885     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06389.x     Document Type: Article

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