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Hypothalamic evoked potentials to vagus and sciatic nerve stimulation

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Hypothalamic evoked potentials to stimulation of the cervical portion of the vagus nerve and the sciatic nerve were recorded in experiments on cats anesthetized with chloralose and immobilized with succinylcholine. When both monopolar and bipolar recording techniques were used the focus of maximal activity of both "visceral" and "somatic" evoked potentials was located in the supramammillary and posterolateral region of the hypothalamus. Responses in the tuberal and anterior hypothalamus occurred in most experiments after a longer latent period, their amplitude was lower, and they were less stable. Evoked potentials in the focus of maximal activity of the posterior hypothalamus are similar in all parameters to responses of the mesencephalic reticular formation. Evoked potentials to stimulation of the visceral nerve have a higher threshold of generation and a lower amplitude than the "somatic" responses and they are inhibited more strongly when the frequency of stimulation is increased. Evoked potentials arising in the hypothalamus in response to stimulation of the vagus and sciatic nerves are regarded as nonspecific responses of reticular type.

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L. A. Orbeli Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, Erevan. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 253–260, May–June, 1973.

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Baklavadzhyan, O.G., Adamyan, F.A. & Avetisyan, É.A. Hypothalamic evoked potentials to vagus and sciatic nerve stimulation. Neurophysiology 5, 194–200 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01062597

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