Two-photon calcium imaging of network activity in XFP-expressing neurons in the mouse

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 3118-3125

  Wilson, Jennifer M ^a   Dombeck, Daniel A ^b,c   Díaz Ríos, Manuel ^b,d   Harris Warrick, Ronald M ^b   Brownstone, Robert M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; LASER MICROSCOPY; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COLORING AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34147114237     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01207.2006     Document Type: Article

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