Fast Ion Imaging

CA3 pyramidal neuron in a rat brain slice loaded with the calcium selective fluorescent probe Calcium Green-1 (75µM) through a patch pipette. The yellow trace is membrane potential.

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Acknowledgements
Supported by:
- SISSA/ICTP project grant "Microelectronics for fluorescence imaging";
- United Nations University (Tokyo, Japan);
- Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica (
MURST)
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (
INFM) grant PRA-CADY.

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