Lumbar-spinal somatosensory evoked potentials in the rat after stimulation of the tibial nerve.

Spinal somatosensory evoked potentials after stimulation of the tibial nerve were recorded from the lumbospinal cord of rats. Their components and the respective latencies recorded over L5/6 and L1/2 in 40 normal animals are described. Using this method exact statements concerning lesions particularly of the proximal segment of the peripheral nerves and their roots can be made.