Miniature microdrive-headstage assembly for extracellular recording of neuronal activity with high-impedance electrodes in freely moving mice

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Korshunov, Victor A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Freely moving mice; Headstage; High impedance electrodes; Microdrive; Single unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROELECTRODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; SKULL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 33750961193     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.05.031     Document Type: Article

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