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Neuronal impulse activity in the thermoregulation center in the anterior and posterior sections of the rabbit hypothalamus was studied in chronic experiments and in intravenously injected anesthetics (urethane and chloralose). Anesthesia decreased the neuronal firing rate, changed the impulse activity pattern, and decreased the number of neurons responding to skin thermal stimulation. These changes were most pronounced in the posterior hypothalamic section.
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I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 574–579, September–October, 1991.
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Dymnikova, L.P. Anesthesia effect on rabbit hypothalamic neuron impulse activity. Neurophysiology 23, 425–429 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052447
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