electrophysiology
Electrophysiology (from [see the etymology of "electron"]; ; and ) is the branch of physiology that studies the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. It involves measurements of voltage changes or electric current or manipulations on a wide variety of scales from single ion channel proteins to whole organs like the heart. In neuroscience, it includes measurements of the electrical activity of neurons, and, in particular, action potential activity. Recordings of large-scale electric signals from the nervous system, such as electroencephalography, may also be referred to as elec
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24 sectionsContents
- Definition and scope
- Classical electrophysiological techniques
- Principle and mechanisms
- Electrographic modalities by body part
- Optical electrophysiological techniques
- Intracellular recording
- Voltage clamp
- Current clamp
- Patch-clamp recording
- Sharp electrode recording
- Microelectrode array recording
- Extracellular recording
- Single-unit recording
- Multi-unit recording
- Field potentials
- Amperometry
- Other methods
- Solid-supported membrane (SSM)-based
- {{anchor|BERA}} Bioelectric recognition assay (BERA)
- Computational electrophysiology
- Clinical electrophysiology
- Clinical reporting guidelines
- See also
- References
Electrophysiology (from [see the etymology of "electron"]; ; and ) is the branch of physiology that studies the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. It involves measurements of voltage changes or electric current or manipulations on a wide variety of scales from single ion channel proteins to whole organs like the heart. In neuroscience, it includes measurements of the electrical activity of neurons, and, in particular, action potential activity. Recordings of large-scale electric signals from the nervous system, such as electroencephalography, may also be referred to as electrophysiological recordings. They are useful for electrodiagnosis and monitoring.
thumb|390px|right|"Current Clamp" is a common technique in electrophysiology. This is a whole-cell current clamp recording of a neuron firing due to its being depolarized by current injection