✦ LIBER ✦
Anesthetic state does not affect the map of the hand representation within area 3b somatosensory cortex in owl monkey
✍ Scribed by Michael P. Stryker; William M. Jenkins; Michael M. Merzenich
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 609 KB
- Volume
- 258
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9967
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✦ Synopsis
Receptive fields defined for small clusters of neurons within the middle cortical layers of area 3b differed little in size or in the skin locations represented among: a) alert, b) nitrous oxide-anesthetized, c) deep sodium pentobarbital-anesthetized, and d) ketamine-anesthetized owl monkeys. Repeated recordings from nearly identical cortical loci yielded nearly identical multi-unit receptive fields under different conditions of anesthesia.