Two-photon calcium imaging in mice navigating a virtual reality environment

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 84, 2014, Pages

  Leinweber, Marcus ^a,b   Zmarz, Pawel ^a,b   Buchmann, Peter ^c   Argast, Paul ^a   Hübener, Mark ^b   Bonhoeffer, Tobias ^b   Keller, Georg B ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adeno associated virus; Behavior; Genetically encoded calcium indicators; Issue 84; Mouse behavior; Two photon imaging; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CRANIOTOMY; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CRANIOTOMY; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84904561505     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50885     Document Type: Article

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