References
The Plymouth book supplied with the Optopatch is sufficiently useful that it may well have gone missing, so we give the full reference here in case you need to find another copy.
"Microelectrode Techniques: The Plymouth Workshop Handbook", editor David Ogden, 2nd edition (1994). Company of Biologists. ISBN 0 948601 49 3
The other general reference is:
"Single-Channel Recording", editors Bert Sakmann and Erwin Neher, 2nd edition (1995). Plenum Press. ISBN 0 306 44870 X
Individual references cited in this manual are as follows:
Armstrong, C.M., and Chow, R.H. (1987). Supercharging: A method for improving patch-clamp performance. Biophys. J., 52, 133-136.
Fidler, N., and Fernandez, J.M. (1989). Phase tracking: an improved phase detection technique for cell membrane capacitance measurements. Biophys. J., 56, 1153-1162
Gillis, K.D. (1995). Techniques for membrane capacitance measurements. In "Single-Channel Recording", pp 155-198.
Joshi, C., and Fernandez, J.M. (1988). Capacitance measurements. An analysis of the phase detector technique used to study exocytosis and endocytosis. Biophys. J., 53, 885-892.
Lindau, M., and Neher, E. (1988). Patch-clamp techniques for time-resolved capacitance measurements in single cells. Pfluegers Arch. 411, 137-146.
Magistretti, J., Mantegazza, M., Guatteo, E. and Wanke, E. (1996). Action potentials recorded with patch-clamp amplifiers: are they genuine? TINS, 19, 530-534.
Neher, E., and Marty, A. (1982). Discrete changes of cell membrane capacitance observed under conditions of enhanced secretion in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 79, 6712-6716.
Sigworth, F.J. (1995). Electronic design of the patch clamp. In "Single-Channel Recording", pp 95-127.
Sigworth, F.J., Affolter, H. and Neher, E. (1995). Design of the EPC-9, a computer-controlled patch-clamp amplifier. 2. Software. J. Neurosci. Methods, 56, 203-215.
