Multimodal sensory responses of nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis and the responses' relation to cortical and motor activation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2326-2338

  Martin, Eugene M ^a   Pavlides, Constantine ^a   Pfaff, Donald ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; HABITUATION; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NECK MUSCLE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SMELLING; TACTILE STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NECK MUSCLES; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETICULAR FORMATION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77952976937     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01122.2009     Document Type: Article

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