Chronic microsensors for longitudinal, subsecond dopamine detection in behaving animals.

Clark, Jeremy J; Sandberg, Stefan G; Wanat, Matthew J; Gan, Jerylin O; Horne, Eric A; Hart, Andrew S; Akers, Christina A; Parker, Jones G et al. · Nat Methods · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Neurotransmission operates on a millisecond timescale but is changed by normal experience or neuropathology over days to months. Despite the importance of long-term neurotransmitter dynamics, no technique exists to track these changes in a subject from day to day over extended periods of time. Here we describe and characterize a microsensor that can detect the neurotransmitter dopamine with subsecond temporal resolution over months in vivo in rats and mice.

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