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Science 19 April 1985:
Vol. 228. no. 4697, pp. 344 - 346
DOI: 10.1126/science.3983633
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Science, Vol 228, Issue 4697, 344-346
Copyright © 1985 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Functional properties of individual neuronal branches isolated in situ by laser photoinactivation

GA Jacobs and JP Miller

The functional properties of an isolated dendritic branch of an identified sensory interneuron in the cricket were studied. The branch responded to wind stimuli directed at the animal and displayed a distinct directional sensitivity to those stimuli. A technique was used that allows a neuron to be specifically lesioned in a semi-intact preparation during intracellular recording. Lesioning was achieved by dye-sensitized photoinactivation with a laser epi-illumination stereomicroscope.


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