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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2003
Ras Kaas Vestergaard, Copenhagen, DK;
Niels Willumsen, Copenhagen, DK;
Nicholas Oswald, Edinburgh, GB;
Jonatan Kutchinsky, Ballerup, DK;
Dirk Reuter, Göttingen, DE;
Rafael Taboryski, Lyngby, DK;
Ras Kaas Vestergaard, Copenhagen, DK;
Niels Willumsen, Copenhagen, DK;
Nicholas Oswald, Edinburgh, GB;
Jonatan Kutchinsky, Ballerup, DK;
Dirk Reuter, Göttingen, DE;
Rafael Taboryski, Lyngby, DK;
Sophion Bioscience A/S, Ballerup, DK;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a substantially planar substrate for use in patch clamp analysis of the electrophysiological properties of a cell membrane comprising a glycocalyx, wherein the substrate comprises an aperture having a rim, the rim being adapted to form a gigaseal upon contact with the cell membrane, The invention further provides a method of making such a substrate and method for analysing the electrophysiological properties of a cell membrane comprising a glycocalyx.