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. 2014 Oct 13;592(Pt 22):5065–5078. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2014.278572

Table 2.

Summary of spontaneous firing rates (SFRs) and spontaneous bursting in unexposed control and sound-exposed animals with behavioural evidence of tinnitus from lemniscal and non-lemniscal subdivisions of medial geniculate body (MGB)

Unexposed controls
 Sound-exposed tinnitus
Non-lemniscal dMGB & mMGB (n = 22) Lemniscal division ventral (n = 42) Non-lemniscal dMGB & mMGB (n = 17) Lemniscal division ventral (n = 28)
SFRs (spikes s−1) 3.5 ± 0.7 5.6 ± 0.3 6.1 ± 0.9 (P < 0.05) 11.7 ± 1.2 (P < 0.0001)
Bursting (bursts min−1) 5.7 ± 2.9 8.6 ± 1.2 14.8 ± 3.3 (P < 0.05) 51.7 ± 8.1 (P ≤ 0.0001)

Both subdivisions exhibited a significant increase in SFRs and spontaneous bursting in sound-exposed animals with behavioural evidence of tinnitus compared to control groups.