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  • Title: [Conditioned responses to time of hypothalamic neurons. The ventromedial nucleus].
    Author: Mednikova IuS, Kopytova FV.
    Journal: Zh Vyssh Nerv Deiat Im I P Pavlova; 1976; 26(2):349-57. PubMed ID: 1274467.
    Abstract:
    Conditioned reactions to the time of regularly (every 30 sec.) presented pairings of an acoustic and an electrical cutaneous stimuli were studied in neurones of the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus in an alert rabbit. Conditioned reactions of an inhibitory (81%) and activating (19%) types were elaborated in 27 out of 63 units (43%). They were significantly reproduced at six to nine omissions of stimulations at the stage of the 50th to 70th pairings. The maximum manifestation of trace processes coincides with the initial formation of a vegetative (electrocardiogram) component of the behavioral conditioned reflex to time. Significant correlation has been shown between the frequency of spikes in the pairings and their omissions, and the corresponding changes in heart rate at the same temporal intervals. This testifies to the involvement of the ventromedial nucleus structures in the formation of the vegetative component of the behavioral conditioned reflex to time. Common characteristics and peculiarities of conditioned reactions to time have been revealed in units of the hypothalamic ventromedial and perifornical nuclei in accordance with morpho-functional properties of the examined structures.
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