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Impalement of immobilized Paramecium with two microelectrodes. The electrodes are filled with 1 M KCl and connected to an electrophysiological amplifier. A voltage drop appears when the electrode is inserted into the cell.

A simple device to immobilize protists for electrophysiology and microinjection

Anirudh Kulkarni, Irene Elices, Nicolas Escoubet, Léa-Laetitia Pontani, Alexis Michel Prevost, and Romain Brette

Journal of Experimental Biology 2020. 223:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.219253