In vivo single-cell excitability probing of neuronal ensembles in the intact and awake developing Xenopus brain

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 849-856

  Dunfield, Derek ^a   Haas, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TADPOLE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WAKEFULNESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; LARVA; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77954067992     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.10     Document Type: Review

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