High-fidelity optical reporting of neuronal electrical activity with an ultrafast fluorescent voltage sensor

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 884-889

  St Pierre, François ^a,b   Marshall, Jesse D ^b,c   Yang, Ying ^a,b   Gong, Yiyang ^b,c   Schnitzer, Mark J ^b,c   Lin, Michael Z ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; GALLUS GALLUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEN BOND; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPOLARIZATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICKENS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84901659469     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3709     Document Type: Article

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