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EMG data analysis

HW Hiroyuki Watanabe
ON Olga Nosova
DS Daniil Sarkisyan
MA Marlene Storm Andersen
LC Liliana Carvalho
VG Vladimir Galatenko
IB Igor Bazov
NL Nikolay Lukoyanov
GM Gisela H. Maia
MH Mathias Hallberg
MZ Mengliang Zhang
JS Jens Schouenborg
GB Georgy Bakalkin
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The spikes from Spike2 EMG data files were sorted with Offline Sorter (version 3, Plexon). The EMG amplitude (spike number) from different muscles was calculated with NeuroExplorer (Nex Technologies). To avoid stimulation artifacts, spikes from the first one or two stimulations were removed from further analysis. The number of spikes was calculated from 16 consecutive stimulations thereafter. The EMG thresholds and responses registered from 0.2 to 1.0 s were analyzed. In this animal preparation, the withdrawal reflexes evoked by innocuous stimulation were very weak compared with those evoked by noxious stimulation (Schouenborg et al., 1992; Weng and Schouenborg, 1998; Schouenborg, 2002; Zhang et al., 2020).

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