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What does "isontophorese" mean?

Bill Skaggs bill at nsma.arizona.edu
Sun Oct 15 22:42:28 EST 1995


cacst9+ at PITT.EDU (Cecelia A Clancy) writes:

   [ . . . ]

   I tried looking up this term in references and could not find it. 

   [ . . . ]

It doesn't mean anything.  The word is "iontophorese", and it means to
eject an ionized substance from a micropipet by applying an electrical
potential to it.  Neurotransmitters are often applied this way using
glass microelectrodes inserted into the brain, so that they will only
affect small, localized volumes of tissue.

	-- Bill



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