Columbia University Medical Campus
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Biology
Dopamine Release at Individual Presynaptic Terminals Visualized with FFNs
Hui Zhang 1,2, Niko G. Gubernator 3,4, Minerva Yue 1, Roland G. W. Staal 1, Eugene V. Mosharov 1, Daniela Pereira 1, Vojtech Balsanek 3, Paul A. Vadola 3, Bipasha Mukherjee 5, Robert H. Edwards 5, David Sulzer 1,2,6, Dalibor Sames 3
1Departments of Neurology, Columbia University, 2Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Columbia University, 3Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 4eMolecules, Inc., 5Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, 6Division of Molecular Therapeutics, New York Psychiatric Institute
A new means to measure neurotransmission optically using fluorescent dopamine analogs.
Neuroscience
Piezo High Accuracy Surgical Osteal Removal (PHASOR): A Technique for Improved Cranial Window Surgery in Mice
Samuel D. Clark 1, Rachel Mikofsky *1, Jacqueline Lawson *1, David Sulzer 1
1Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, & Pharmacology, Columbia University Medical Campus
Piezoelectric surgery has led to improvements in human maxillofacial and dental surgery. We have developed a protocol to optimize piezoelectric surgery for cranial window surgery in mice.
