An interface holding chamber for anatomical and physiological studies of living brain slices

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-58

  Krimer, Leonid S ^a   Goldman Rakic, Patricia S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain slices; Holding chamber; Incubation chamber; Infrared videomicroscopy; Intracellular injections; Intracellular recording; Local circuitry; Patch clamp recording

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0030738426     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(97)02265-6     Document Type: Article

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