title: Multiunit bursts in rat pallidum during grooming and stereotyped jaw movements.
abstract: Extracellular recordings from the globus pallidus of awake, unrestrained rats showed a distinctive bursting activity during grooming behaviour and in periods of stereotyped jaw movements induced by amphetamine (3 or 5 mg/kg IP) or apomorphine (2 mg/kg SC). During stereotyped licking, there was one burst for each outward movement of the tongue. The bursts were shown to consist of several separate unit spikes firing so as to produce a fusiform envelope of amplitudes, suggesting an ordered recruitment of pallidal neurons related to licking.
mesh_terms: D000661:Amphetamine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001058:Apomorphine / Q000494:pharmacology; D004298:Dopamine / Q000502:physiology; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000502:physiology*; D006120:Grooming / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007568:Jaw; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011999:Recruitment, Neurophysiological; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000661:Amphetamine; D001058:Apomorphine; D004298:Dopamine