Electrophysiological Assessment

核心将由Michael Levine博士管理。他的职责是监督所有核心服务。博士 Cepeda将提供电生理评估方面的培训和指导，并在某些情况下帮助进行生理实验。核心服务将首先通过咨询莱文和Cepeda博士获得。协商的目的是确定需要哪些服务以及何时和如何最好地提供这些服务。Levine博士和Cepeda博士将与研究者会面，以确定所需的服务，并设定提供服务的时间表。因此，这些服务是先到先得的。 在进行电生理分析时需要帮助的IDDRC研究人员将可以使用这些核心服务，据我们所知，这些服务目前在UCLA不可用，除非研究人员之间建立了合作。核心设置的培训和/或使用将根据个性化的时间表进行，该时间表取决于核心用户的复杂程度和先前的经验。 电生理学实验是劳动密集型和耗时的。根据我们的经验，一次只能有一名调查员（或最多两名，取决于他们需要的服务）使用核心。我们预计，大多数项目将需要一到两个月才能完成（取决于切片时培养细胞和动物的可用性），尽管电生理学培训可能需要更长的时间，这取决于接受培训的人的能力。一旦个人接受培训，他们将能够使用该设施进行实验。实验和收集的数据将由Levine博士和Cepeda博士监测。我们的经验是，每周与收集数据的研究者举行会议足以进行质量控制和评估。 生理学评估核心将直接与核心D（细胞生物学和细胞成像）进行交互，以协调对相同动物或在进行电生理学后对固定组织进行的电生理学和成像实验，并与核心E（动物模型核心）进行交互，以确定实验动物的可用性。

The Core will be administered by Dr. Michael Levine. His role will be to oversee all Core services. Dr. Cepeda will provide training and instruction in electrophysiological assessment and in some cases will help perform the physiological experiments. Core services will be accessed first by consultation with Drs. Levine and Cepeda. The purpose of the consultation will be to determine which services are needed and when and how they might best be provided. Drs. Levine and Cepeda will meet with the investigator to determine the services needed and set up a time-line for provicling the service. Thus, these services are available on a firstcome, first-served basis. IDDRC investigators that need aid in performing electrophysiological analyses will have access to these Core services which are not to our knowledge presently available at UCLA except when collaborations are set up between investigators. Training and/or use of the Core set-ups will be performed according to an individualized schedule that depends on the sophistication and previous experience of the Core user. Electrophysiological experiments are labor intensive and time-consuming. It is our experience that only one investigator (or perhaps two at most depending on the services they need) will be able to use the Core at one time. We expect that most projects will require one to two months to complete (depending on availability of cultured cells and animals when slices are made), although training in electrophysiology may take longer depending on the ability of the person being trained. Once an individual is trained, they will be able to use the facility to perform experiments. The experiments and the data collected will be monitored both by Drs. Levine and Cepeda. Our experience is that weekly meetings with the investigator collecting the data are sufficient for quality control and assessment. The Physiological Assessment Core will interact directly with Core D, Cell Biology and Cellular Imaging to coordinate electrophysiological and imaging experiments on the same animals or on fixed tissue after electrophysiology is performed and Core E, Animal Models Core to determine availability of animals for experiments.