Intracellular responses of anteroventral cochlear nucleus neurones to intracochlear electrical stimulation in the rat [Abstract]

This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 16th Annual Australian Neuroscience Meeting held in Adelaide, 28-31 January 1996.This is a publisher’s version of an abstract of a paper from the Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society 1996, published by Australian Neuroscience Society.The anterior division of the ventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) is the first relay station of the auditory pathway. Currently little is known about the intracellular physiological responses of neurones in the AVCN to electrical stimulation of the cochlea. We investigated the effect of cochlear electrical stimulation in the rat AVCN using in vivo intracellular recordings. Male rats were anaesthetised with urethane (1.3g/kg i.p), placed in a stereotaxic frame, the crania and dura removed and the cochlear nucleus exposed