PGO

English Etymology Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave. Noun ~ A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep. en 2010 The Neuroscience of Sleep Robert Stickgold; Matthew P. Walker 28 0123757223 Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation. en 2012 Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry Shoichi Imai; Makoto Endo; Iwao Ohtsuki 172 1461555434 The result is consistent with the idea that PGO is interacting with an amino acid residue that lies in the vicinity of the phosphorylation site, Aspas. en 2013 Drugs, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior Leslie Iversen 265 1468431803 The study of PGO activity (which was described in the first part of this paper) belongs to a very specialized field of sleep physiology. Anagrams en gop GOP GPO POG gop pog