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This chapter provides a reference background against which the performance of the microelectrode voltage clamps can be appreciated. It is based primarily on personal experience gathered from extensive use of the sucrose-gap technique on lobster and squid axons and is compared with various aspects of this work using microelectrodes.
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Moore, J.W. (1985). Comparison of Voltage Clamps With Microelectrode and Sucrose-Gap Techniques. In: Smith, T.G., Lecar, H., Redman, S.J., Gage, P.W. (eds) Voltage and Patch Clamping with Microelectrodes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7601-6_10
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