Session 6

[BISC6-03] Refractive index measurement of myelinated co-cultured DRG neurons with surface plasmon microscopy

*Ipsita Chakraborty¹, Akinari Abe², Yuki Miwahara³, Kenta Shimba³, Hiroshi Kano², Yasuhiko Jimbo³, Andreas Offenhäusser¹ (1. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmBH, 2. Muroran Institute of Technology, 3. University of Tokyo)

In this work, we study the refractive-index profile of co-cultured myelinated dorsal root ganglion neurons from embryonic rats in-vitro with the developed surface plasmon microscope. This provides a platform to quantize the neuronal characteristics in a label-free manner.