Tracking axonal action potential propagation on a high-density microelectrode array across hundreds of sites

Douglas J. Bakkum (), Urs Frey, Milos Radivojevic, Thomas L. Russell, Jan Müller, Michele Fiscella, Hirokazu Takahashi () and Andreas Hierlemann
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Douglas J. Bakkum: ETH Zurich
Urs Frey: RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center
Milos Radivojevic: ETH Zurich
Thomas L. Russell: ETH Zurich
Jan Müller: ETH Zurich
Michele Fiscella: ETH Zurich
Hirokazu Takahashi: Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Andreas Hierlemann: ETH Zurich

Nature Communications, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Axons are traditionally considered stable transmission cables, but evidence of the regulation of action potential propagation demonstrates that axons may have more important roles. However, their small diameters render intracellular recordings challenging, and low-magnitude extracellular signals are difficult to detect and assign. Better experimental access to axonal function would help to advance this field. Here we report methods to electrically visualize action potential propagation and network topology in cortical neurons grown over custom arrays, which contain 11,011 microelectrodes and are fabricated using complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology. Any neuron lying on the array can be recorded at high spatio-temporal resolution, and simultaneously precisely stimulated with little artifact. We find substantial velocity differences occurring locally within single axons, suggesting that the temporal control of a neuron’s output may contribute to neuronal information processing.

Date: 2013
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