Movie 8

Intracellular voltage recording while the pump is switched on and off. The pump is switched on at t = 20 s, then is switched on and off every 10 s. The pump pulsation is visible as movements of Paramecium, with no apparent change in membrane potential.

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