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Hmm action potentials without membranes? I had better revise my teaching 
on the biophysics of  cells!

LOL

Cheers


Philip Oshel wrote:

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> I'm not so sure about that. Action potentials can be gotten from dead 
> neurons. I worked in a lab once doing EM for a bunch of 
> neurophysiologists, and they routinely got action potentials not only 
> from dead brain slices, but also slilces where the neurons had been 
> dead long enough to lose their membranes. (Needless to say, they never 
> liked being told this.)
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> But, I think there's a typo here. Tino refers to "slice preparation", 
> which is a tissue sample thick enough to contain living, intact cells, 
> not to "slide preparation".
>
> Phil
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>> Yes, but I don't quite understand what Tino means by
>> slide preparations.  You'll only get a measure of
>> membrane potential is the cells are intact and alive.
>>
>>                     Guy
>>
>> moreno wrote:
>>
>>>  yes,
>>>  DI8-ANNEPS for example.
>>>  Tino Jaeger wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>
>>>>  is there any fluorescence dye, which can can be used to code for the
>>>>  membrane potential of cells (e.g. loading of the cells like with 
>>>> FURA-AM,
>>>>  and the then fluorescence intensity of the dye shows up the different
>>>>  voltage (membrane potential) of cells in a slice preparation)?
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks for your help.
>>>>  Tino
>>>>
>>>
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