Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 2, Issue 1, 67(2009)
OBSERVING NEURONAL ACTIVITIES WITH RANDOM ACCESS TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPE
As a second messenger in signal transduction, calcium ion plays a very important role in neuronal information processing and integrating. Limited by the imaging technique, it is difficult to simultaneously perform deep tissue imaging and measure intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in different compartments of neurons in brain slice noncollinearly. By means of random access two-photon microscopy, which provides high optical penetration into tissues and low photo damage, we successfully measured [Ca2+]i of different parts of pyramidal neurons in neocortical layer V in rat brain slices with high spatial and temporal resolution. Combining the patch clamp technique, we stimulated the soma with depolarizing current and explored the dynamics of calcium in pyramidal neurons.
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YUXIANG WU, XIULI LIU, WEI ZHOU, XIAOHUA LV, SHAOQUN ZENG. OBSERVING NEURONAL ACTIVITIES WITH RANDOM ACCESS TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPE[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2009, 2(1): 67
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Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019
The Author Email: ZENG SHAOQUN (sqzeng@mail.hust.edu.cn)
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