PGO

English

Etymology

Short for ponto-geniculo-occipital wave.

Noun

PGO (countable and uncountable, plural PGOs)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• GOP, GPO, POG, gop, pog