Blind patch clamp recordings in embryonic and adult mammalian brain slices

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 532-542

  Castañeda Castellanos, David R ^a   Flint, Alexander C ^b   Kriegstein, Arnold R ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34248662263     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.75     Document Type: Article

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