OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
... ∆F/F0, or signal-to-noise ratio (Figure 3).
Figure 3: One- and two-photon excitation and emission...potential (AP) spiking events are indicated below the trace; asterisk indicates a single AP. B) Averaged fluorescence...past few decades, genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) have become a vital tool in neuroscience...toolbox, our team recently developed a new calcium indicator, OCaMP.
The challenge: Expanding the fluorescent... signals in the brain. For this to work, each indicator needs to emit a different color of light and be...FPbase.org.
Scientists have developed calcium indicators spanning nearly the entire visible spectrum (...gold standard for green fluorescence, while red indicators jRGECO1a and jRCaMP1a are widely used as well...