PGO
English
Etymology
Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.
Noun
PGO (countable and uncountable, plural PGOs)
- A spike of electrical activity in the brain that moves from pons to geniculate nucleus to occipital lobe at the onset of REM sleep.
- 2010, Robert Stickgold & Matthew P. Walker, The Neuroscience of Sleep, →ISBN, page 28:
- Impulses in the PGO generators can be triggered by any of these inputs through direct excitation or postinhibitory rebound excitation.
- 2012, Shoichi Imai, Makoto Endo, & Iwao Ohtsuki, Muscle Physiology and Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 172:
- 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.
- 2013, Leslie Iversen, Drugs, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior, →ISBN, page 265:
- The study of PGO activity (which was described in the first part of this paper) belongs to a very specialized field of sleep physiology.
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Anagrams
- GOP, GPO, POG, gop