Materials
Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
Polybrene | Santa Cruz Biotech | SC134220 | |
Paraformaldehyde 32% solution | EMS | 15714 | |
VECTASHIELD | Vector Labs | H-1400 | |
AAV viral constructs | UNC Vector Core | NA | |
Mouse stereotactic headholder | Stoelting | 51730 | |
Nanocool injector | Harvard Apparatus | 703040 | |
UV laser: 355 nm, Nd:YVO4; 1 W; | DPSS Lasers, Inc | 3500 | |
Galvonometers | Cambridge Scanning | 6210 | |
mirrors | Cambridge Scanning | 6m2003S-A | |
mount | Cambridge Scanning | 6102103L | |
cable | Cambridge Scanning | 6010-19-120 | |
driver/controller | Cambridge Scanning | 67121-1 | |
Shutter - ZM coated (UV-compatible) | Uniblitz | L23-ZM2 | |
Shutter Controller | Uniblitz | VMM-D1 | |
Current Amplifier | Stanford Research Systems | SR570 | |
6713 board | National Instruments | 777741-01 | |
2110 break-out box | National Instruments | 777643-01 | |
PCI-MIO-16E-4 | National Instruments | 777383-01 | |
BNC-2090 | National Instruments | 777270-01 | |
Cables | National Instruments | 184749-01 | |
MATLAB | Mathworks | ||
TCS SP2 | Leica Microsystems |
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