Sensorimotor processing in the newborn rat red nucleus during active sleep

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 8322-8332

  Del Rio Bermudez, Carlos ^a   Sokoloff, Greta ^a   Blumberg, Mark S ^a,b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Myoclonic twitching; Reafference; REM sleep; Sensorimotor; Somatotopy; Topography

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; BETA ALANINE; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE TONE; MYOCLONUS; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RED NUCLEUS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84930255289     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0564-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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