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Influence of stimulation of the ocular muscles on the formation of visual responses of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat

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In acute experiments on anesthetized cats it was shown that a single stimulation of the ocular muscles leads to unambiguous changes in the formation of the negative and positive components of the evoked response of the lateral geniculate nucleus to the presentation of a light stimulus. It was established that the nature of the muscular influences on the formation of these components of the evoked response of the lateral geniculate nucleus depends on the interval between conditioning muscular and test light stimuli.

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A. I. Karaev Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaidzhan Republic, Baku. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 451–455, July–August, 1991.

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Kul'gavin, L. Influence of stimulation of the ocular muscles on the formation of visual responses of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat. Neurophysiology 23, 330–334 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052565

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