Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila

Chin-Lin Chen; Laura Hermans; Meera C. Viswanathan; Denis Fortun; Florian Aymanns; Michael Unser; Anthony Cammarato; Michael H. Dickinson; Pavan Ramdya

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06857-z

Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila

Chin-Lin Chen,
Laura Hermans,
Meera C. Viswanathan,
Denis Fortun,
Florian Aymanns,
Michael Unser,
Anthony Cammarato,
Michael H. Dickinson,
Pavan Ramdya

Affiliations

Chin-Lin Chen: Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laura Hermans: Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Meera C. Viswanathan: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Denis Fortun: Biomedical Imaging Group, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Florian Aymanns: Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michael Unser: Biomedical Imaging Group, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Anthony Cammarato: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Michael H. Dickinson: Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Pavan Ramdya: Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06857-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Drosophila ventral nerve cord (VNC) is functionally equivalent to the vertebrate spinal cord. This study reports a 2-photon imaging approach for recording neural activity in the VNC of walking and grooming adult flies.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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