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Science 17 May 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3829, pp. 791 - 794
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3829.791
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"Tactile" Stimulus Intensity: Information Transmission by Relay Neurons in Different Trigeminal Nuclei

Ian Darian-Smith 1, Mark J. Rowe 1, and Barry J. Sessle 1

1 School of Physiology, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia

Comparison of the information transmitted about the intensity of a steady "tactile" stimulus applied to facial skin by single trigemino-thalamic neurons in nucleus oralis and nucleus caudalis indicates that little information loss occurs at the medial lemniscal synaptic relay (nucleus oralis), but that it is gross within the nucleus caudalis.


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