Calcium Imaging
CALCIUM IMAGING: FUNCTIONAL IMAGING
WHAT IS CALCIUM IMAGING?
Calcium plays a key role in cell signaling: the movement of Calcium ions provoque a change in cells membrane potential, which is partly responsible for neuronal signals transmission. Calcium signaling regulates a wide range of physiological properties of cells.
Calcium Imaging is an essential technique to evaluate Calcium ions role in functioning neurons. The Calcium Imaging technique uses a fluorescent “dye” that responds to the binding of Ca+ ions and changes its fluorescent properties, allowing optical measurement of Calcium concentration shift within neurons and neuronal tissue.
Thanks to Calcium Imaging, you can either measure individual cell or global neuronal network Calcium dynamics at a very high resolution. Calcium Imaging analysis tools allow to circle regions of interest in the studied neuronal culture, so that AP firing can be measured locally.
Calcium imaging is a mid-throughput technique.
WHAT FOR?
We can perform Calcium Imaging on:
- Cloned channels and receptors
- Rodent brain neuron cultures
- Rodent brain slices
- Human iPSC-Derived neurons
- Rodent DRG sensory neurons cultures.
Calcium imaging on rodent DRG sensory neurons can help investigate at the earlier stages of the drug discovery process the pharmacology of compounds developed for Pain pathologies. If you want to learn more about how we can provide you with a complementary study on human DRG sensory neurons, please visit www.neuroservices-alliance.com.
ADVANTAGES OF CALCIUM IMAGING
NEURONAL CULTURES RECORDINGS
Calcium imaging helps document and understand compounds activity at the single neuron level or neuronal network level.
Measurements
- Firing activity of small neuronal subpopulations
- Capsaicin-induced firing activity
- 30 nM capcaisin (1min) elicits a calcium response in 50% of DRG sensory neurons
- 60 nM KCl used as a positive control to identify healthy, excitable DRG sensory neurons
SAMPLE STUDIES
More information coming soon.