A miniaturized planar patch-clamp system for transportable use.

In the last decade, planar patch-clamp (PPC) has emerged as an innovative technology allowing parallel recordings of cellular electrophysiological activity on planar substrates. If PPC is widely adopted by the pharmaceutical sector, it remains poorly extended to other areas (i.e.

The development of high quality seals for silicon patch-clamp chips.

Planar patch-clamp is a two-dimensional variation of traditional patch-clamp. By contrast to classical glass micropipette, the seal quality of silicon patch-clamp chips (i.e.