Physiological effects of a habituation procedure for functional MRI in awake mice using a cryogenic radiofrequency probe

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 274, Issue , 2016, Pages 38-48

  Yoshida, Keitaro ^a   Mimura, Yu ^a   Ishihara, Ryosuke ^a   Nishida, Hiroshi ^a   Komaki, Yuji ^b   Minakuchi, Tomohito ^a   Tsurugizawa, Tomokazu ^c   Mimura, Masaru ^a   Okano, Hideyuki ^a   Tanaka, Kenji F ^a   Takata, Norio ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS   (Japan)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Awake; Conscious; CryoProbe; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Habituation; Mouse; Resting state network

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPROBE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FECAL WEIGHT; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HABITUATION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEART RATE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKULL; WAKEFULNESS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ANESTHETIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HEART RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84989869906     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.09.013     Document Type: Article

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