PMID-25546652 Brain Tissue Responses to Neural Implants Impact Signal Sensitivity and Intervention Strategies
- (Interesting): eight identical electrode arrays implanted into the same region of different animals have shown that half the arrays continue to record neural signals for >14 weeks while in the other half of the arrays, single-unit yield rapidly degraded and ultimately failed over the same timescale.
- In another study, aimed at uncovering the time course of insertion-related bleeding and coagulation, electrodes were implanted into the cortex of rats at varying time intervals (−120, −90, −60, −30, −15, and 0 min) using a micromanipulator and linear motor with an insertion speed of 2 mm/s.40 The results showed dramatic variability in BBB leakage that washed out any trend (Figure 3), suggesting that a separate underlying cause was responsible for the large inter- and intra-animal variability.
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