Bilateral multielectrode neurophysiological recordings coupled to local pharmacology in awake songbirds

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-200

  Tremere, Liisa A ^a   Terleph, Thomas A ^b   Jeong, Jin Kwon ^a   Pinaud, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PENTOBARBITAL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEMISPHERE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SONGBIRD; WAKEFULNESS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CEREBRUM; ELECTRODES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SONGBIRDS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76649137968     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.224     Document Type: Article

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