Abstract
Calcium imaging is a powerful technique that permits the visual monitoring of neural responses to pheromones and other odors in large ensembles of neurons. Here, we describe a method that permits the monitoring of Drosophila antennal lobe responses to odors using the genetically encoded calcium monitor GCaMP.
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This work was supported by NIH (R01DK092640) and NSF (0920668) grants to J.W.W.
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Kim, S.M., Wang, J.W. (2013). Calcium Imaging of Pheromone Responses in the Insect Antennal Lobe. In: Touhara, K. (eds) Pheromone Signaling. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1068. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-619-1_12
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