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J Neurophysiol 97: 3118-3125, 2007. First published February 15, 2007; doi:10.1152/jn.01207.2006 Free Article
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INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY

Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Network Activity in XFP-Expressing Neurons in the Mouse

Jennifer M. Wilson1, Daniel A. Dombeck3, Manuel Díaz-Ríos3, Ronald M. Harris-Warrick3 and Robert M. Brownstone1,2

1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and 2Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and 3Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Submitted 15 November 2006; accepted in final form 6 February 2007

Fluorescent protein (XFP) expression in postnatal neurons allows the anatomical and physiological investigation of identified subpopulations of interneurons with established techniques. However, the spatiotemporal pattern of activity of these XFP neurons within a network and their role in the functional output of the network are more challenging issues to investigate. Here we apply two-photon excitation laser scanning microscopy to mouse spinal cord locomotor networks and present the methodology by which calcium activity can be recorded in XFP-expressing neurons. Such activity can be studied both in relation to neighboring non-XFP neurons in a spinal cord slice preparation and in relation to functional locomotor output monitored by ventral root activity in the intact in vitro spinal cord. Thus the network properties and functional correlates with locomotion of identified populations of interneurons can be studied simultaneously.

Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: R. Brownstone, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 14A1 Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 5850 College Street, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 1X5 (E-mail: Rob.Brownstone{at}dal.ca)




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