Imaging neural activity in worms, flies and mice with improved GCaMP calcium indicators

Nature Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 875-881

  Tian, Lin ^a   Hires, S Andrew ^a   Mao, Tianyi ^a   Huber, Daniel ^a   Chiappe, M Eugenia ^a   Chalasani, Sreekanth H ^b   Petreanu, Leopoldo ^a   Akerboom, Jasper ^a   McKinney, Sean A ^a,d   Schreiter, Eric R ^c   Bargmann, Cornelia I ^b   Jayaraman, Vivek ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a   Looger, Loren L ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; METABOLISM;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MICE; NEURONS;

EID: 73349108496     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1398     Document Type: Article

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