title: Short latency vestibular potentials evoked by electrical round window stimulation in the guinea pig.
abstract: Short-latency potentials evoked by round window electrical stimulation were recorded in guinea pig by means of vertex-pinna skin electrodes using averaging techniques. Constant current shocks of 20 microseconds or 50 microseconds (25-300 microA) were used to evoke both auditory and vestibular brain-stem potentials. Pure auditory potentials, comparable to those evoked by acoustic clicks, were obtained by 20 microseconds electrical stimuli and disappeared during an auditory masking procedure made with a continuous white noise (110 dB SPL). Short latency potentials labeled V1, V2 and V3 were obtained by 50 microseconds electrical stimuli during an auditory masking procedure. This response disappeared after specific vestibular neurectomy, whereas the auditory response evoked by acoustic clicks or by electrical stimulation remained unchanged, suggesting that these latter potentials had a vestibular origin.
authors: Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Sensorielle, INSERM U 254, USTL, Montpellier, France.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Bordure
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Desmadryl
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Uziel
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Sans
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003051:Cochlea / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D011930:Reaction Time; D012405:Round Window, Ear / Q000502:physiology*; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000502:physiology*