A new measure of cortical inhibition by mechanomyography and paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation in unanesthetized rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 966-972

  Hsieh, Tsung Hsun ^a,b   Dhamne, Sameer C ^a   Chen, Jia Jin J ^b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^c,d   Jensen, Frances E ^a   Rotenberg, Alexander ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

GABA; Long interval intracortical inhibition; Mechanomyogram

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; PENTETRAZOLE; PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HINDLIMB; INHIBITION KINETICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOGRAPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; GABA AGENTS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PENTOBARBITAL; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84862938030     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00690.2011     Document Type: Article

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