Robotic multiwell planar patch-clamp for native and primary mammalian cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-255

  Milligan, Carol J ^a   Li, Jing ^a   Sukumar, Piruthivi ^a   Majeed, Yasser ^a   Dallas, Mark L ^a   English, Anne ^b   Emery, Paul ^b   Porter, Karen E ^a   Smith, Andrew M ^c   McFadzean, Ian ^d   Beccano Kelly, Dayne ^a   Bahnasi, Yahya ^a,e   Cheong, Alex ^a   Naylor, Jacqueline ^a   Zeng, Fanning ^a   Liu, Xing ^a   Gamper, Nikita ^a   Jiang, Lin Hua ^a   Pearson, Hugh A ^a   Peers, Chris ^a   Robertson, Brian ^a   Beech, David J ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MAMMAL CELL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; ROBOTICS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 59849100915     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.230     Document Type: Article

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