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A technique for making a double-barrelled PO2-microelectrode is described. It has been used to measure simultaneously the tissular PO2-and the bioelectrical activity in the retina and the brain cortex.
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Acknowledgments. The authors thank Professor E.-J. Speckmann, Professor H. Caspers and Dr J. A. Coles for comments on the manuscript and Dr J. Lensing and M. S. Levy for technical advice. This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, grant No. 3.634-0.75 (to M.T.)
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Tsacopoulos, M., Lehmenkühler, A. A double-barrelled Pt-microelectrode for simultaneous measurement of PO2 and bioelectrical activity in excitable tissues. Experientia 33, 1337–1338 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01920167
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