Culturing and electrophysiology of cells on NRCC patch-clamp chips

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 60, 2012, Pages

  Py, Christophe ^a   Martina, Marzia ^a   Monette, Robert ^a   Comas, Tanya ^a   Denhoff, Mike W ^a   Luk, Collin ^b   Syed, Naweed I ^b   Mealing, Geoff ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultured neurons; Disease models; Electrophysiological recordings; Issue 60; Neuroscience; Patch clamp; Pharmaceutical screens; Silicon planar patch clamp chip

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857816337     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3288     Document Type: Article

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