Imaging action potentials with calcium indicators.

نویسندگان

  • Jason N MacLean
  • Rafael Yuste
چکیده

The understanding of neuronal circuits has been, and will continue to be, greatly advanced by the simultaneous imaging of action potentials in neuronal ensembles. This protocol describes "bulk" loading of brain slices with acetoxymethyl (AM) ester calcium indicators in order to monitor action potential activity in large populations of neurons simultaneously. The imaging of calcium influx into neurons provides an indirect, but accurate, measure of action potential generation in individual neurons. Single-cell resolution, and thus the easy identification of every active cell, is the key advantage of the technique.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cold Spring Harbor protocols

دوره 2011 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009