Optical monitoring of early appearance of spontaneous membrane potential changes in the embryonic chick medulla oblongata using a voltage-sensitive dye.
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Abstract
Using a voltage-sensitive merocyanine-rhodamine dye (NK2761) and a 12 x 12-element photodiode matrix array, we recorded optically spontaneous membrane potential changes in a slice preparation from the embryonic chick brain stem during early development. The spontaneous optical signals, related to membrane potential changes, showed a simple monophasic shape with a relatively long duration, and they were synchronized among the different regions in the medulla oblongata. The spontaneous signals were first detected from seven-day-old embryos, and were not present in six-day-old embryos. The spontaneous signals appeared sporadically, and their frequency was very low. Three modes of optical signals termed "singlet-mode", "doublet-mode", and "triplet-mode" were observed. In the doublet- and triplet-modes, the spatial pattern of the first signal was primarily similar to that of the singlet-mode signal, whereas the signal size and spatial extent of the second and third signals appeared to decay.
Affiliation
Department of Physiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Japan.
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- PubMed ID:
- 8433809
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