Juxtacellular recording and morphological identification of single neurons in freely moving rats

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2369-2381

  Tang, Qiusong ^a   Brecht, Michael ^a   Burgalossi, Andrea ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; IN VIVO STUDY; JUXTACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS, WISTAR; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922325014     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.161     Document Type: Article

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