A miniaturized chronic microelectrode drive for awake behaving head restrained mice and rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-72

  Haiss, Florent ^a,c   Butovas, Sergejus ^a,b   Schwarz, Cornelius ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavior; Hippocampus; Microdrive; Mouse; Multi site recording; Multiple single unit; Neocortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HEAD; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROELECTRODE; MICROELECTRODE DRIVE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 77249086564     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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