Dendrites emerging from the cell bodies of neurons receive the majority of synaptic inputs. They possess a plethora of ion channels that are essential for the processing of these synaptic signals. To fully understand how dendritic ion channels influence neuronal information processing, various patch-clamp techniques that allow electrophysiological recordings to be made directly from dendrites have been developed. In this chapter, I describe one such method that is suitable for making electrophysiological recordings from the apical dendrites of hippocampal and cortical pyramidal neurons. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Shah, M. M. (2013). Recording dendritic ion channel properties and function from cortical neurons. Methods in Molecular Biology, 998, 303–309. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-351-0_24
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