Altered activity in the central medial thalamus precedes changes in the neocortex during transitions into both sleep and propofol anesthesia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 13326-13335

  Baker, Rowan ^a   Gent, Thomas C ^a   Yang, Qianzi ^a   Parker, Susan ^a   Vyssotski, Alexei L ^b   Wisden, William ^a   Brickley, Stephen G ^a   Franks, Nicholas P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

General anesthesia; Midline thalamic nuclei; Sleep

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; PROPOFOL; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SLEEP; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS MEDIALIS CENTRALIS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THALAMUS;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROPOFOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SLEEP; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84907494918     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1519-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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