title: Spontaneous K-complexes in behaving rats.
abstract: The K-complex (KC) is an electrographic rhythmic pattern present in human and cat sleep EEG. In long-term multisite videoEEG recordings in behaving Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, well-defined spontaneous KCs were observed during sleep. Sprague-Dawley rats were implanted with multiple electrodes bilaterally along the antero-posterior axes at the locations F1, F2, F7, F8, T3, T4, P3, P4, all against a ground reference placed in the midline above the cerebellum. Multiple, closely spaced cortical electrodes allowed two-dimensional surface brain mapping of the power spectra distribution. Two silver wires were also inserted into nuchal muscles to record EMG activity. Each rat was monopolarly recorded from 0900 h to 1500 h in a natural dark-light rodents, we examined the patterns of appearance in various conditions, the progression through a full sleep-waking cycle, the shape, density, spectral components, and spatial distribution in power spectra. The rat KC appears to share similar features with the human and cat KC.
authors.affiliation: Centro di Ricerca Sperimentale sul Sonno Giuseppe Moruzzi, Istituto di Fisiologia Umana II, Università degli Studi, Via Mangiagalli 32, 20133 Milano, Italy. gabriella.marini@unimi.it
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marini
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ceccarelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mancia
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000187:drug effects*; D010507:Periodicity; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012890:Sleep / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000777:Anesthetics