title: Reticular potentials evoked by electrical stimulation of individual semicircular canals.
abstract: Responses of pontine reticular formation neurons following single shock electrical stimulation of single semicircular canals were recorded with tungsten microelectrodes in 40 curarized guinea-pigs. The field and unitary potentials obtained from 62 reticular sites, exhibited latency values ranging from 0.3 to 2.5 msec. The early latencies (0.3-0.5 msec) have been interpreted as responses mediated by primary vestibular fibres projecting directly to the reticular substance.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D009434:Neural Pathways; D012154:Reticular Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D012665:Semicircular Canals / Q000502:physiology*