Comparison of genetically encoded calcium indicators for monitoring action potentials in mammalian brain by two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy

Neurophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Podor, Borbala ^a   Hu, Yi Ling ^a   Ohkura, Masamichi ^b   Nakai, Junichi ^b   Croll, Roger ^a   Fine, Alan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcium transients; G CaMP; GECO; genetically encoded calcium indicators; organotypic hippocampal slice; two photon microscopy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAMMALS; PHOTONS; RATS; TRANSIENTS;

CALCIUM INDICATOR; CALCIUM TRANSIENTS; G-CAMP; GECO; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; TWO PHOTON MICROSCOPY;

NEURONS;

CALCIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SLICE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICALLY ENCODED CALCIUM INDICATOR; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETICS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84961408786     PISSN: 2329423X     EISSN: 23294248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.2.2.021014     Document Type: Article

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