Economic and simple system to combine single-spot photolysis and whole-field fluorescence imaging

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Jaafari, Nadia ^a,b,c   Henson, Mark ^d   Graham, Jeremy ^d   Canepari, Marco ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c Laboratory of Excellence in Ion Channel Science and Therapeutics   (France)

^d Cairn Research Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calcium imaging; epifluorescence microscope; light emitting diode illumination; photolysis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM IMAGING; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE ILLUMINATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; TRANSISTOR-TRANSISTOR LOGIC; UV/VISIBLE ILLUMINATIONS;

AMINO ACIDS; CALCIUM; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPES; PHOTOLYSIS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

CALCIUM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOLYSIS; RAT; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; FLUORESCENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOLYSIS; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 84879643525     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.6.060505     Document Type: Article

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