Parts list

Part

Supplier/Item

Part

Supplier/Item

Drive Body

Check flexDrive repository

Spring

Check flexDrive repository

Shield cone

See flexDrive repository

Screws

Set of screws from Labmaker

Tubing

26ga, 33ga and 38ga polyimide tubing at Professional plastics

Gold pins

Small EIB Pins from Neuralynx

Custom EIB

EIB_88ch_3Omnetics_v4_4 custom EIB from ATLAS Neuro

Silicon probes (ideal for CA1)

E16R+R-60-S1-L20 NT from ATLAS Neuro

Tetrode wire

Sandvik precision fine tetrode wire 1000ft

Tesa anti-static Masking tape (protection cap)

Farnell

The current EIB is designed to incorporate two 16 channels linear silicon probes, optimized for the CA1/CA3 region of the mouse hippocampus. However, other 16 channels bendable-shaft silicon probes, with unique geometrical organization of the contacts, are readily available. Denser, nonlinear organizations can be used to infer the sub-layer origin of the recorded units, e.g. deep vs superficial hippocampal pyramidal cells (E16R+R-20-S1-L20 NT; Mizuseki et al. (2011)), or shaft with electrodes organized in more spaced configuration that can sample LFP across multiple areas (E16+R-250-S1-L8 NT).