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1 Using the Oscilloscope. 2 Circuits and Amplifiers. Video: Large Capacitor Charging and Discharging. Videos require the free player for QuickTime, which you can download here. 3 Effect of potassium concentration on the resting potential. Video: Intracellular Recording from Crayfish Muscle Cells. Video: Making Microelectrodes. 4 Action potentials in earthworm giant axons. Video: Giant Axons in the Earthworm Nerve Cord. 5 Computer simulations of action potentials and synaptic potentials. 6 Electroretinogram of the crayfish eye. Video: Electroretinogram of the crayfish eye. An article about this laboratory website appeared in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education 2(1): A16-A22 (2003).         7 Motor units in the crayfish nerve cord. Video: Motor Units in Crayfish Abdominal Ganglia. 8 Discussion: Crayfish swimmeret system. Video: Swimmeret Movements. 9-12 Projects: Crayfish swimmeret system. Video: Central Pattern Generator for Crayfish Swimmerets. Supplement: Anatomy of the crayfish nervous system. Appendices: Cables and connectors Capturing Data with PowerLab and Chart Capturing Data with Sound Studio Capturing Oscilloscope Screenshots Computer Screenshots and AppleWorks Posters DAM50 Differential Preamplifiers EasyGraf Chart Recorders. Saline solutions.
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