A system for applying rapid warming or cooling stimuli to cells during patch clamp recording or ion imaging

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-8

  Reid, Gordon ^a   Amuzescu, Bogdan ^a   Zech, Eberhard ^b   Flonta, Maria Luiza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b ESF Electronic   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feedback control; Fluorimetry; Patch clamp recording; Peltier device; Temperature control

Indexed keywords

ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL CULTURE; CRYOANESTHESIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION CHAMBER; ELECTRONICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEATING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; PATCH CLAMP; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL GANGLION; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FEEDBACK; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HEATING; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; IONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERFUSION; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 0035888981     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00416-2     Document Type: Article

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