An air-molding technique for fabricating PDMS planar patch-clamp electrodes

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 449, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 564-572

  Klemic, Kathryn G ^a   Klemic, James F ^b   Sigworth, Fred J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ion channel; Microfabrication; Micromolding; PDMS

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE; ION CHANNEL; SILASTIC;

AIR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHO CELL; ELECTRODE; ION CURRENT; LABORATORY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARTICLE SIZE; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; WHOLE CELL; XENOPUS;

AIR; ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 17444400816     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-004-1360-8     Document Type: Article

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