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Nature Neuroscience 11, 733 - 734 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0708-733
Out of control in the dendrites
Nelson Spruston1 & Daniel Johnston2
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Nelson Spruston is in the Department of Neurobiology & Physiology, Northwestern University, 2205 Tech Dr., Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
e-mail: spruston@northwestern.edu -
Daniel Johnston is at the Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, 2506 Speedway, Austin, Texas 78705, USA.
e-mail: djohnston@mail.clm.utexas.edu
Abstract
Although voltage-clamp recordings remain a favorite method for studying synaptic transmission, the space-clamp problems that are associated with somatic voltage-clamp recordings have never been directly measured. A study by Williams and Mitchell in this issue now measures the experimental errors associated with this technique.
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