Patch clamp recordings from embryonic zebrafish mauthner cells

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 79, 2013, Pages

  Roy, Birbickram ^a   Ali, Declan William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action potentials; AMPA receptors; Glycine receptors; Ion channels; Issue 79; Ligand Gated ion channels; Mauthner cells; Neuroscience; Neurosciences; NMDA receptors; Reticulospinal neurons; Synapse; Synapses; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884180019     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50551     Document Type: Article

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