Technical Reference #888

Glass Bottom Culture Dishes

This study used MatTek product(s):

Citation in paper containing MatTek reference:
glassbottom dishes (MatTek; Ashland; MA)

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Optical Recording Of Action Potentials With Second-Harmonic Generation Microscopy Daniel A. Dombeck; Mireille Blanchard-Desce; and Watt W. Webb, Cornell University, The Journal of Neuroscience, 24(888), (2004)
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Abstract:
Nonlinear microscopy has proven to be essential for neuroscience investigations of thick tissue preparations. However the opticalrecording of fast (1 msec) cellular electrical activity has never until now been successfully combined with this imaging mo

Keywords:
Imaging; action potential; membrane potential; second-harmonic generation; microscopy; nonlinear; optical; voltagesensitive dye

Materials & Methods:
The cultures were grown in glassbottom dishes (MatTek Ashland MA)

Microscopic Technique
Second Generation Harmonic

Cell Type(s)
Ganglia