Articles by Hugo Caicedo in JoVE

Brain Slice Stimulation Using a Microfluidic Network and Standard Perfusion Chamber

JoVE 302 10/01/2007

Javeed Shaikh Mohammed¹, Hugo Caicedo¹, Christopher P. Fall², David T. Eddington¹

¹Dept. of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, ²Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago

We demonstrate fabrication of a simple microfluidic device that can be integrated with standard electrophysiology setups to expose microscale surfaces of a brain slice in a well controlled manner to different neurotransmitters.