Iridium oxide microelectrode arrays for in vitro stimulation of individual rat neurons from dissociated cultures

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Eick, Stefan ^a,b   Wallys, Jens ^a,b   Hofmann, Boris ^a,b   van Ooyen, André ^c   Schnakenberg, Uwe ^c   Ingebrandt, Sven ^d   Offenhäusser, Andreas ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Inorganic Chemistry   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissociated networks; Extracellular stimulation; Iridium oxide; Multi electrode arrays; Neuron; SIROF; Stimulation pulse parameters; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954327154     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.16.016.2009     Document Type: Article

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