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Responses of single neurons to stimulation of the subthalamic "locomotor region" were recorded extracellularly in the tegmentum mesencephali of rats. Latent periods of response of different neurons varied from 1 to 13 msec. The thresholds of the unit responses usually did not exceed the threshold for eliciting locomotion. The results are evidence of direct and oligosynaptic connections between the "locomotor regions" of the subthalamus and mesencephalon.
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M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 275–280, May–June, 1977.
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Mel'nikova, Z.L. Connections of the subthalamic and mesencephalic "locomotor regions" in rats. Neurophysiology 9, 214–218 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063394
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