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PGO en · NOUN

Etymology

Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.

Meanings

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

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