Thank you for your advises, I will measure it. We have a voltage clamp
system isolation unit but I haven't had the time to try it yet. By the
time I am working in the voltage-response curve to determine the useful
voltage.
Ana
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> 4. Rat brain atlas (punnu bansal)
> 5. Re: Fundamental Concepts of Neuroscience (Francis Burton)
> 6. Re: Rat brain atlas (Shawn Mikula)
> 7. Re: Brain impedance (Bill)
> 8. Stationary Noise analysis for single-channel info? (Bill)
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>> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:15:07 -0000
> From: "aeneurofisiologia from gmail.com" <aeneurofisiologia from gmail.com>
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Brain impedance
> To: neur-sci from net.bio.net> Message-ID: <1182258907.711715.4030 from n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
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>>> <Ana.Cervera-Fe... from uv.es> escreveu:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to stimulate through bipolar teflon-coated steel electrodes in
> > the tegmentum in rats with pulses of 50-500 uA. I need to know which is
> > the average brain impedance in vivo to calculate the voltage needed. I
> > suppose that the contribution of the electrode impedance is low but if I
> > have to take it into account any advise is welcome.
> > Thank you in advance!
> >
> > Ana
>> Hi am a student of neurophysiology, I'm Portuguese and I will respond
> to you in Spanish.
> la impedansia es una ressistensia que varia com el tiempo, tiens
> varios problemas el primero es que es mui variable de ser vivo para
> ser vivo y es distinto em um ser vivo mediante la estructura e el
> momento em que asses la medicion de la impedancia.
> bueno lo que te aconserro es que agas lo siguente la maioria de los
> aparatos de EEG o EMG tienes lector de inpedancia de esse modo puedes
> seber la impedancia de la estructura que queres estimular em un
> momento dado, normalmente la enpedansia dada por la maquina ja tiene
> em cuenta la ressistensia del electrodo porque este no esbariable.
>> Buena suerte e espero tenerte ajudado
>>>> ------------------------------
>> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:21:57 +0200
> From: Mathias <mathiasDOTfranzius from webDELETEME.de>
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Fundamental Concepts of Neuroscience
> To: neur-sci from net.bio.net> Message-ID: <f58l9l$mve$1 from hahn.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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>> Umesh wrote:
> > I want a gist of fundamental concepts of neuroscience, Can you help
> > me? Thank you for your attention.
> >
>> If you're looking for books, I can recommend these two:
>>http://books.google.com/books?id=moCkAAAACAAJ&dq=handbook+arbib>http://books.google.com/books?id=vbS_AgAACAAJ&dq=kandel+shwartz>> Mathias
>>> ------------------------------
>> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:24:54 +0200
> From: Mathias <mathiasDOTfranzius from webDELETEME.de>
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Stress Medication
> To: neur-sci from net.bio.net> Message-ID: <f58lf6$mve$2 from hahn.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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>> Please do not post your homework assignments in news groups. You won't
> learn anything but instead unnerve many people.
>>> ------------------------------
>> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:48:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: punnu bansal <punnubansal79 from yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Rat brain atlas
> To: neur-sci from magpie.bio.indiana.edu> Message-ID: <502746.74674.qm from web31001.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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>> dear sir
>>> we need rat atlas for our study so please send me the detail of rat
atlas from where it is available
>>> Puneet Kumar Bansal
> M.Pharma(Pharmacology)
> H.No. B-XI 1103, Street No. 3,
> KC Road, Barnala,
> Punjab 148101,
> India
> MOBILE- 09876100692
>>>> ---------------------------------
> Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
>> ------------------------------
>> Message: 5
> Date: 19 Jun 2007 17:15:15 GMT
> From: fburton from nyx.net (Francis Burton)
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Fundamental Concepts of Neuroscience
> To: neur-sci from net.bio.net> Message-ID: <1182273315.403667 from irys.nyx.net>
>> In article <1182269391.082140.195900 from g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> Umesh <fraternitydisposal from gmail.com> wrote:
> >Is there any short book or summary work not more than few hundred
> >pages on the same?
>> It may be longer than you want, but I heartily recommend
> "An Anatomy of Thought" by Ian Glynn (Oxford University
> Press, 2003) as an extremely readable and erudite survey
> of the fundamentals.
>>http://tinyurl.com/2qgha3>> Francis
>>> ------------------------------
>> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:56:02 -0700
> From: "Shawn Mikula" <samikula from ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Neuroscience] Rat brain atlas
> To: <neur-sci from magpie.bio.indiana.edu>
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>>http://brainmaps.org>>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "punnu bansal" <punnubansal79 from yahoo.com>
> To: <neur-sci from magpie.bio.indiana.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:48 AM
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Rat brain atlas
>>> > dear sir
> >
> >
> > we need rat atlas for our study so please send me the detail of rat
atlas
> > from where it is available
> >
> >
> > Puneet Kumar Bansal
> > M.Pharma(Pharmacology)
> > H.No. B-XI 1103, Street No. 3,
> > KC Road, Barnala,
> > Punjab 148101,
> > India
> > MOBILE- 09876100692
> >
> >
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:39:51 -0700
> From: Bill <connelly.bill from gmail.com>
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Brain impedance
> To: neur-sci from net.bio.net> Message-ID: <1182314391.530453.216060 from x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
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>> Three answers.
> 1) If you want to stimulate using a known current, buy a constant
> current stimulator. This is the only way to be certain. Electrode
> resistances change over time due to electroplating, oxidation etc.
> However there is nothing wrong with using a constant voltage
> stimulator. None of us can know the resistance of your stimulating
> electrode, I would not assume it is negligible, especially if it is
> fine at the end.
>> 2) Measure it! Next time someone culls an animal in your department,
> see if you can use the brain. All you'll need is a $20 dollar
> multimeter to get a pretty good idea of the resistance of your
> electrode when it is implanted in brain.
>> 3) 50-500uA? Do you actually -need- to be in that range? Surely you
> can just work up from 5V up to 20-100V, until you get the result you
> are looking for? Indeed, a nice input-output curve (stimulus vs
> response) graph is a nice way to indicate your intervention is truly
> due to your stimulus and not the implantation/surgery.
>> On Jun 18, 7:26 am, <Ana.Cervera-Fe... from uv.es> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to stimulate through bipolar teflon-coated steel electrodes in
> > the tegmentum in rats with pulses of 50-500 uA. I need to know which is
> > the average brain impedance in vivo to calculate the voltage needed. I
> > suppose that the contribution of the electrode impedance is low but if I
> > have to take it into account any advise is welcome.
> > Thank you in advance!
> >
> > Ana
>>>>> ------------------------------
>> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:50:01 -0700
> From: Bill <connelly.bill from gmail.com>
> Subject: [Neuroscience] Stationary Noise analysis for single-channel
> info?
> To: neur-sci from net.bio.net> Message-ID: <1182315001.872339.235600 from x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Hi,
>> If I've got a standing background noise in a whole-cell voltage clamp
> experiment that I know is mediated by an ion channel (it goes away in
> the presence of all the right drugs and is enhanced by the right drugs
> etc), I am sure I can get some information on the single channel
> conductances that are making this noise.
>> I can find several papers that say things like "Given Variance^2 =
> i^2npo(1-po) we calculated a lorentzian function and found the single
> channel conductance".
>> How do I ACTUALLY do this? Anyone know? I'm sure I could get a graph
> program to fit a lorentzian function to a curve, if I could calculate
> the right curve in the first place, which is a spectral density
> function, which plots A^2/Hz vs Hz.
>> Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? (I certainly don't).
> Can anyone offer some rough tips on what I need to do? I have access
> to CED software, MiniAnalysis and John Dempsters WinWCP package.
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