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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS
Volume 139, Issue 1, Pages 69-77Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.04.010
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Europium-TTA; fluorescence imaging; infrared laser; microheater; micropipette; microthermometer; optical microscope
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We present a simple approach to bring fast and reversible temperature steps of a wide range of amplitudes from the temperature of the experimental chamber up to the boiling point of water in a desired position, with rise and fall times of around 10 ms in a microvolume of mum in size, such as in a single cell. For this purpose, we applied a technique for illuminating a metal aggregate (1-2 mum in diameter) placed at the tip of a glass micropipette with a focused infrared (1064 nm) laser beam under an optical microscope. Stable temperature gradients were created around the metal aggregate using an appropriate neutral density filter set for the laser output. To monitor the local temperature, we devised a new microthermometer composed of the tip of a micropipette filled with thermosensitive fluorescent dye Europium-TTA possessing steep temperature-dependent phosphorescence upon 365 nm excitation. The mum size of the tip of this pipette was able to measure the local temperature with 0.1 degreesC precision and mum spatial resolution. This new approach is compatible with standard electrophysiological and imaging techniques. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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