Adding Cellular Neurophysiology to an Undergraduate Laboratory

该项目将把细胞神经生理学这一重要领域添加到本科实验室中。利用无脊椎动物的准备，学生将在学习现代设备和技术的同时进行动手实验和练习。四个学生工作站将配备显微镜、细胞内和细胞外放大器、刺激器、示波器和计算机。学生将学习小龙虾浅屈肌神经支配的生理和形态，静息电位的离子基础，蜗牛脑细胞的兴奋特性，小龙虾神经肌肉突触传递和小龙虾伸展感受器的刺激反应特性。这个项目将让所有的实验室学生接触到与课程中的文本工作相对应的动手工作，并为那些希望在神经科学研究团队和神经科学专业继续学习的学生提供初步的经验和设备。

This project will add the important field of cellular neurophysiology to an undergraduate laboratory. Using invertebrate preparations, students will do hands-on experiments and exercises while learning modern equipment and techniques. Four student workstations will be equipped with microscopes, intra- and extra-cellular amplifiers, stimulators, oscilloscopes and computers. The students will study the physiology and morphology of the innervation of the crayfish superficial flexor muscle, the ionic basis of the resting potential, the excitable properties of snail brain cells, crayfish neuromuscular synaptic transmission and the stimulus-response properties of the crayfish stretch receptor. This project will expose all lab students to hands on work which corresponds to text work in the course as well as provide the initial experience and equipment for those students wishing to continue their studies on the neuroscience research team and in the neuroscience concentration.