Carbon-ring microelectrode arrays for electrochemical imaging of single cell exocytosis: fabrication and characterization.

@article{Lin2012CarbonringMA,
  title={Carbon-ring microelectrode arrays for electrochemical imaging of single cell exocytosis: fabrication and characterization.},
  author={Yuqing Lin and Rapha{\"e}l Trouillon and Maria I. Svensson and Jacqueline D. Keighron and Ann-Sofie Cans and Andrew G. Ewing},
  journal={Analytical chemistry},
  year={2012},
  volume={84 6},
  pages={
          2949-54
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:31859820}
}
In order to demonstrate the utility of these fabricated microelectrodes in neurochemistry, CRMAs containing eight microring electrodes were used for electrochemical monitoring of exocytotic events from single PC12 cells and subcellular temporal heterogeneities inExocytosis were successfully detected with theCRMAs.
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