Combined voltage and calcium epifluorescence imaging in vitro and in vivo reveals subthreshold and suprathreshold dynamics of mouse barrel cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 3751-3762

  Berger, Thomas ^a,b   Borgdorff, Aren ^a,c   Crochet, Sylvain ^a   Neubauer, Florian B ^b   Lefort, Sandrine ^a   Fauvet, Bruno ^a   Ferezou, Isabelle ^a   Carleton, Alan ^a   Lüscher, Hans Rudolf ^b   Petersen, Carl C H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INNERVATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATCH CLAMP; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRISSA; XENOPUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LARVA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE NET; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE; XENOPUS;

EID: 34447295674     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01178.2006     Document Type: Article

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