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Figure 5

From: Exposure to 1800 MHz LTE electromagnetic fields under proinflammatory conditions decreases the response strength and increases the acoustic threshold of auditory cortical neurons

Figure 5

Effects of LTE exposure on parameters quantified from cortical responses in healthy animals. (a) BF distributions of the cortical neurons for healthy animals exposed to LTE (in dark blue) and Sham-exposed to LTE (in light blue). The two distributions did not differ. (b–f) Effects of LTE exposure on the parameters quantifying the spectro-temporal receptive fields (STRF). The response strength was not significantly changed both on the entire STRF and at the best frequency (b,c). The response duration was slightly increased (d) but, the response bandwidth and the bandwidth were unchanged (e,f). Both the strength and the temporal reliability of the responses to vocalizations were unchanged (g,h). Spontaneous activity was not significantly changed (i). (*p < 0.05 unpaired t-tests). (j,k) Effects of LTE exposure on the cortical thresholds. On average, the threshold were not significantly changed in LTE-exposed rats compared to Sham-exposed rats, but the exposed animals had slightly lower thresholds in the high frequencies.

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