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ArticleFrontiers in neural circuits2012

Two-photon scanning microscopy of in vivo sensory responses of cortical neurons genetically encoded with a fluorescent voltage sensor in rat.

Kurt F Ahrens, Barbara Heider, Hanson Lee, Ehud Y Isacoff, Ralph M Siegel

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Article in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators: Opportunities and Challenges.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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  12. Two-photon excitation microscopy and its applications in neuroscience.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kurt F AhrensCenter for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark NJ, USA.
Barbara Heider
Hanson Lee
Ehud Y Isacoff
Ralph M Siegel
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

Fluorescent Protein Sensors of Neural ActivityR01NS050833 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI ISACOFF, EHUD · 2005 to 2008
$1.3M
Neural circuitry of the parietal lobeR03EY014657 · NEI · RUTGERS THE STATE UNIV OF NJ NEWARK · PI SIEGEL, RALPH M · 2004 to 2006
$435k
NEI NIH HHS R03 EY014657NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS050833
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A fluorescent voltage sensor protein "Flare" was created from a Kv1.4 potassium channel with YFP situated to report voltage-induced conformational changes in vivo. The RNA virus Sindbis introduced Flare into neurons in the binocular region of visual cortex in rat. Injection sites were selected based on intrinsic optical imaging. Expression of Flare occurred in the cell bodies and dendritic processes. Neurons imaged in vivo using two-photon scanning microscopy typically revealed the soma best, discernable against the background labeling of the neuropil. Somatic fluorescence changes were correlated with flashed visual stimuli; however, averaging was essential to observe these changes. This study demonstrates that the genetic modification of single neurons to express a fluorescent voltage sensor can be used to assess neuronal activity in vivo.

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cortexgenetic engineeringsingle celltwo-photon imagingvision

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PMID22461770
PMCPMC3310150
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