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The Swimmeret System of Crayfish: A Practical Guide for the Dissection of the Nerve Cord and Extracellular Recordings of the Motor Pattern
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Neuroscience
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JoVE Journal Neuroscience
The Swimmeret System of Crayfish: A Practical Guide for the Dissection of the Nerve Cord and Extracellular Recordings of the Motor Pattern
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11:45 min

November 25, 2014

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 01:35Gross Dissection
  • 04:40Fine Dissection
  • 06:43Pinning Nerve Cord into Petri Dish and Desheathing Ganglia
  • 08:24Extracellular Recordings from Motor Neurons
  • 09:18Results: Motor Pattern Recordings in the Swimmeret System of the Crayfish
  • 10:59Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

Here we describe the dissection of the crayfish abdominal nerve cord. We also demonstrate an electrophysiological technique to record fictive locomotion from swimmeret motor neurons.

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