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The authors were supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant JP16K11200 and 17H02223, and the Grant for Research from Kanazawa Medical University S2016-8 and C2017-3. We thank Yuhichi Kuda for his support in taking the photos.

All procedures are done in accordance with the guiding principles of the Physiological Society of Japan and with the approval of the Animal Care Committee of Kanazawa Medical University.
1. Construction of the Glass Optrode Holder
NOTE: To build a glass optrode holder, a commercial electrode holder is used (Figure 1A).
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Optogenetics has become a powerful tool in neuroscience. It has been utilized for identifying specific neuron types in vivo as well as manipulating the activities of specific neuronal pathways. The clarification of the neural activities of different neuronal types promotes the understanding of the mechanism of the neural circuits. Here, we demonstrated a method to deliver the light to the recording site through a glass electrode in the IC of awake VGAT-ChR2 mice.
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The central nervous system consists of various types of neurons, which have different functions. How these different types of neurons work within the neural circuit is one of the major concerns in neuroscience. However, in many brain regions, it has been impossible to distinguish the neuronal types in in vivo recordings of electrical activities because there is no clear difference in the electrical spike signal itself, with some exceptions. Recent advances in optogenetics have made a breakthrough1,2. Using transgenic animals in which light-sensitive opsin (e.g., channelrhodopsin-2) is expressed in specific neuronal types, it became possible to distinguish the neuronal types efficiently in in vivo recordings3,4,5,6. In these animals, the neurons with light-sensitive opsin are excited by giving light stimuli during the electrical recordings, but other neurons are not. The opsin-positive neurons, therefore, are easily distinguished from other neuron types by their responses to light.
In optogenetics experiments, it is critical to deliver the light to the recording site. As a non-invasive method, the light is often directed from the brain&#39;s surface. However, because the light&#39;s strength reduces as it goes through brain tissue, it is hard to stimulate the deep brain regions from the brain&#39;s surface. Especially, it is difficult for the stimulation light to reach the deep brain regions when the optical transparency of the brain surface is low, as is often the case with recordings from awake animals. Electrophysiological experiments have often been performed on anesthetized animals because the body movement causes noise in the recordings. As is well documented, however, anesthesia is known to change the neural responses7,8,9,10. Thus, it is necessary to use awake animals in order to study neural responses without the artificial effects of anesthesia. Unlike the experiments with anesthetized animals, the electrophysiological recordings are performed after the recovery from surgery in the experiments with awake animals. During the interval between the surgery and the recordings, the tissue exudate often accumulates on the brain surface and makes the optical transparency of the brain surface low.
Here, we describe a method to record single-unit recordings from an awake mouse using a custom-made glass optrode. In this method, the light is delivered through the recording glass electrode so that it is possible to reliably stimulate the recorded neuron with light in deep brain regions. This custom-made optrode system consists of accessible and inexpensive materials and is easy to assemble.

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optogenetics identification of a neuronal type with a glass optrode in awake mice

It is a major concern in neuroscience how different types of neurons work in neural circuits. Recent advances in optogenetics have enabled the identification of the neuronal type in in vivo electrophysiological experiments in broad brain regions. In optogenetics experiments, it is critical to deliver the light to the recording site. However, it is often hard to deliver the stimulation light to the deep brain regions from the brain&#39;s surface. Especially, it is difficult for the stimulation light to reach the deep brain regions when the optical transparency of the brain surface is low, as is often the case with recordings from awake animals. Here, we describe a method to record spike responses to the light from an awake mouse using a custom-made glass optrode. In this method, the light is delivered through the recording glass electrode so that it is possible to reliably stimulate the recorded neuron with light in the deep brain regions. This custom-made optrode system consists of accessible and inexpensive materials and is easy to assemble.

In Figure 2, we examined the effects of the tip size and the length of the glass pipettes on the light power at the tip of the pipettes (Figure 2A-B). The light power was measured by an optical power meter placed 1 mm away from the tip. The full length was set to 50 &#177; 2 mm when the tip size varied, while the tip size was set to 2.5 &#181;m when the full length varied. The shank of the glass pipette was set t...

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Optogenetics Identification of a Neuronal Type with a Glass Optrode in Awake Mice

This work introduces a method to perform an optogenetic single-unit recording reliably from an awake mouse using a custom-made glass optrode.

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