A Bright and Fast Red Fluorescent Protein Voltage Indicator That Reports Neuronal Activity in Organotypic Brain Slices
Abdelfattah AS, Farhi SL, Zhao Y, Brinks D, Zou P, Ruangkittisakul A, Platisa J, Pieribone VA, Ballanyi K, Cohen AE, Campbell RE. A Bright and Fast Red Fluorescent Protein Voltage Indicator That Reports Neuronal Activity in Organotypic Brain Slices. Journal Of Neuroscience 2016, 36: 2458-2472. PMID: 26911693, PMCID: PMC4764664, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3484-15.2016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVoltage indicatorsBlue-shifted channelrhodopsinRed-shifted fluorescent proteinsFluorescent voltage indicatorsWide-field fluorescence microscopyBlue excitationOptical imagingOptical electrophysiologyLow phototoxicityAutofluorescent backgroundLight photoactivationSingle-trial recordingsTemporal resolutionChannelrhodopsinIntrinsic advantagesExcitationVoltage oscillationsFluorescence microscopyOscillationsGreen indicatorsChromophoreMicroscopyResolution