Two-photon calcium imaging of evoked activity from L5 somatosensory neurons in vivo.

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Nature Neuroscience. 2011 Aug;14(8):1089-93. doi: 10.1038/nn.2879
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Two-photon calcium imaging of evoked activity from L5 somatosensory neurons in vivo. Looger Lab
Mittmann W, Wallace DJ, Czubayko U, Herb JT, Schaefer AT, Looger LL, Denk W, Kerr JN
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Abstract

Multiphoton imaging (MPI) is widely used for recording activity simultaneously from many neurons in superficial cortical layers in vivo. We combined regenerative amplification multiphoton microscopy (RAMM) with genetically encoded calcium indicators to extend MPI of neuronal population activity into layer 5 (L5) of adult mouse somatosensory cortex. We found that this approach could be used to record and quantify spontaneous and sensory-evoked activity in populations of L5 neuronal somata located as much as 800 μm below the pia. In addition, we found that RAMM could be used to simultaneously image activity from large (80) populations of apical dendrites and follow these dendrites down to their somata of origin.

PMID: 21743473 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Loren Looger
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