Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Imaging large-scale cellular activity in spinal cord of freely behaving mice

  • Kohei J. Sekiguchi,
  • Pavel Shekhtmeyster,
  • Katharina Merten,
  • Alexander Arena,
  • Daniela Cook,
  • Elizabeth Hoffman,
  • Alexander Ngo,
  • Axel Nimmerjahn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11450
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Imaging cellular activity in mouse spinal cord has been historically difficult. Here the authors develop cellular resolution fluorescence imaging approaches in the spinal cord of behaving mice, and report distinct activity patterns of neurons and astrocytes in response to different sensory inputs.