An improved genetically encoded red fluorescent Ca2+ indicator for detecting optically evoked action potentials

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Ohkura, Masamichi ^a   Sasaki, Takuya ^a   Kobayashi, Chiaki ^b   Ikegaya, Yuji ^b   Nakai, Junichi ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CATION CHANNEL; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; GENETICALLY ENCODED RED FLUORESCENT CALCIUM INDICATOR; INDICATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALCIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR PROBES; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84863676879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039933     Document Type: Article

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