[Neuroscience] Re: gap juntions

[Christian Wilms]

Karthik Rajasekaran <kr5z from virginia.edu> wrote:

> I am just curious to know if gap junctions can be studied 
> electrophysiologically in a brain slice akin to studying chemical synapses?
I guess that depends on how much akin you want to go. In principal it is
possible to study gap junctions using established techniques. In my
previous lab we had a guest for several months, who was characterising
gap junctions in cerebellar slices using a combination of whole cell
patch-clamp recordings and live cell confocal imaging.

Sorry, that I'm not able to provide further details. 

H2H, Christian