Mapping inhibitory neuronal circuits by laser scanning photostimulation

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 56, 2011, Pages

  Ikrar, Taruna ^a   Olivas, Nicholas D ^a   Shi, Yulin ^a   Xu, Xiangmin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

GFP; Glutamate uncaging; Interneurons; Issue 56; Neuroscience; Transgenic; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054926835     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3109     Document Type: Article

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