A microfluidic brain slice perfusion chamber for multisite recording using penetrating electrodes

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-13

  Blake, Alexander J ^a   Rodgers, Frank C ^b   Bassuener, Anna ^b   Hippensteel, Joseph A ^a   Pearce, Thomas M ^a   Pearce, Timothy R ^a   Zarnowska, Ewa D ^b   Pearce, Robert A ^b   Williams, Justin C ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Current source density (CSD); Field potentials; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation (LTP); Microfluidics; Multisite recording electrodes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; MICROFLUIDICS; MOUSE; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PERFUSION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 77952549666     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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