title: Functional properties of individual neuronal branches isolated in situ by laser photoinactivation.
abstract: The functional properties of an isolated dendritic branch of an identified sensory interneuron in the cricket were studied. The branch responded to wind stimuli directed at the animal and displayed a distinct directional sensitivity to those stimuli. A technique was used that allows a neuron to be specifically lesioned in a semi-intact preparation during intracellular recording. Lesioning was achieved by dye-sensitized photoinactivation with a laser epi-illumination stereomicroscope.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D003712:Dendrites / Q000502:physiology; D007834:Lasers; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009987:Orthoptera