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ArticleBio-protocol2018

Dual-sided Voltage-sensitive Dye Imaging of Leech Ganglia.

Yusuke Tomina, Daniel A Wagenaar

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Article in Bio-protocol, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Circuit-constrained molecular neuroethology in the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026
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  6. Non-synaptic Plasticity in Leech Touch Cells.Frontiers in physiology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yusuke TominaDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.
Daniel A WagenaarDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States.
California Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Elucidating interactions between behavior-generating circuits using functional and anatomical connectomicsR01NS094403 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI WAGENAAR, DANIEL A · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094403
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this protocol, we introduce an effective method for voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) loading and imaging of leech ganglia as used in Tomina and Wagenaar (2017). Dissection and dye loading procedures are the most critical steps toward successful whole-ganglion VSD imaging. The former entails the removal of the sheath that covers neurons in the segmental ganglion of the leech, which is required for successful dye loading. The latter entails gently flowing a new generation VSD, VF2.1(OMe).H, onto both sides of the ganglion simultaneously using a pair of peristaltic pumps. We expect the described techniques to translate broadly to wide-field VSD imaging in other thin and relatively transparent nervous systems.

Indexed as

Dye-loading processMicrodissectionVoltageFluorVoltage-sensitive dye imagingWhole-brain recording

Identifiers

PMID29594188
PMCPMC5867905
OpenAlexW2794394538

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