Command-line cellular electrophysiology for conventional and real-time closed-loop experiments

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 230, Issue , 2014, Pages 5-19

  Linaro, Daniele ^a,b   Couto, João ^a,b   Giugliano, Michele ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Belgium   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active Electrode Compensation; Cellular neurobiology; Closed loop; Command line interface; Current clamp; Dynamic clamp; Electrophysiology; Experimental control; Hybrid experiments; Neuroinformatics; Real time computing; Scripted electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRENT CLAMP TECHNIQUE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; STIMULATION; WAVEFORM; WORKFLOW; ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84899877957     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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