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Microfluidics-Assisted Selective Depolarization of Axonal Mitochondria
Simone Wanderoy *1,2, Alina Rühmkorf *1,2, Angelika B. Harbauer 2,3,4
1TUM Medical Graduate Center, Technical University of Munich, 2Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 3TUM School of Medicine, Institute of Neuronal Cell Biology, Technical University of Munich, 4Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology

The present protocol describes the seeding and staining of neuronal mitochondria in microfluidic chambers. The fluidic pressure gradient in these chambers allows for the selective treatment of mitochondria in axons to analyze their properties in response to pharmacological challenges without affecting the cell body compartment.

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