A metallic multisite recording system designed for continuous long-term monitoring of electrophysiological activity in slice cultures.

This paper describes a flexible, metallic multielectrode array, made on kapton to fit in a recording chamber for interface-type organotypic cultures. This multisite recording system is designed for continuous multisite monitoring of electrophysiological activity in rat brain organotypic slice cultures. The system is composed of a signal conditioning set-up, which also masters electrical stimulation paradigms and a card containing the microelectrode array.

A simple, low-cost and fast Peltier thermoregulation set-up for electrophysiology.

Most of the parameters recorded in electrophysiology are strongly temperature dependent. In order to control temperature fluctuations we have built a system that ensures an accurate thermoregulation of the recording chamber. Temperature of physiological preparations can be changed relatively quickly (about 8 degrees C/min) and with a good accuracy (+/- 0.