Rapid coating of glass-capillary microelectrodes for single-electrode voltage-clamp

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-204

  Juusola, Mikko ^a   Seyfarth, Ernst August ^b   French, Andrew S ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacitance compensation; Intracellular recordings; Mechanoreception; Spider; Transduction current; Voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; ION CURRENT; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GLASS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MICROELECTRODES; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPIDERS;

EID: 0030901442     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00145-8     Document Type: Article

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