Another tungsten microelectrode
Tóm tắt
A technique is described for fitting a sharpened tungsten wire and a glass micropipette together so that a precisely controlled amount of bare wire is exposed at the tip. The method is tedious and demanding but produces very reliable electrodes yielding isolated extracellular recordings from single nerve cells and their axons.
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