From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Feb 24 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.kornet.nm.kr!nntp.kreonet.re.kr!news-xfer.nuri.net!news.nuri.net!usenet From: Tae-Young Ahn Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Patch clamp Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:23:54 +0900 Organization: A-Lab, CNS, Seoul, Korea Lines: 31 Message-ID: <34F40D5A.B03F97C8@nuri.net> References: <6cpvrq$d2e$1@news.flashnet.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: ts242-60.nuri.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) To: Marco Simone Zuppone X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Marco Simone Zuppone wrote: > Hi, > > I need to find with urgency material about PATCH CLAMP. What is it? > Is Patch clamp related in any way to Neural Networks? > > My best regards > Marco Simone Zuppone You can trace current generated by nervous cells or muscle cells. What makes it possible is "Patch Clamp". Patch Clamp has two mode: Voltage Clamp, Current Clamp mode. Voltage Clamp measure membrane current under fixed voltage range. Current Calmp is vice versa. and You can get useful information about electrophysiology related to patch clamp. Try here. http://electrophys2.ucsf.edu/PatchClamp/patchclamp.html ------------------------------------------------------ Tae-Young tyahn@nuri.net "We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough." -- Niels Bohr .