Capabilities of the WinLTP data acquisition program extending beyond basic LTP experimental functions

WinLTP is a Windows data acquisition program designed for the investigation of long-term potentiation (LTP), long-term depression (LTD), and synaptic responses in general. The capabilities required for basic LTP and LTD experiments include alternating two-input extracellular pathway stimulation, LTP...

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Published in:Journal of neuroscience methods 2007-05, Vol.162 (1-2), p.346-356
Main Authors: Anderson, William W., Collingridge, Graham L.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Epileptiform bursting
Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials - physiology
Humans
Ischemia
Kindling
Long-term depression (LTD)
Long-term potentiation
Long-Term Potentiation - physiology
Multitasking
Scripting
Software
User-Computer Interface
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Summary:WinLTP is a Windows data acquisition program designed for the investigation of long-term potentiation (LTP), long-term depression (LTD), and synaptic responses in general. The capabilities required for basic LTP and LTD experiments include alternating two-input extracellular pathway stimulation, LTP induction by single train, theta burst, and primed burst stimulation, and LTD induction by low frequency stimulation. WinLTP provides on-line analyses of synaptic waveforms including measurement of slope, peak amplitude, population-spike amplitude, average amplitude, area, rise time, decay time, duration, cell input resistance, and series resistance. WinLTP also has many advanced capabilities that extend beyond basic LTP experimental capabilities: (1) analysis of all the evoked synaptic potentials individually within a sweep, and the analysis of the entire train-evoked synaptic response as a single entity. (2) Multitasking can be used to run a Continuous Acquisition task (saving data to a gap-free Axon Binary File), while concurrently running the Stimulation/Acquisition Sweeps task. (3) Dynamic Protocol Scripting can be used to make more complicated protocols involving nested Loops (with counters), Delays, Sweeps (with various stimulations), and Run functions (which execute a block of functions). Protocol flow can be changed while the experiment is running. WinLTP runs on National Instruments M-Series and Molecular Devices Digidata 132x boards, and is available at www.winltp.com.
ISSN:0165-0270
1872-678X
DOI:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.12.018