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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pflugers Arch. 2017 Sep 2;470(1):97–112. doi: 10.1007/s00424-017-2063-2

TABLE 1.

Electrochemical microchips for multisite resolution of quantal exoytosis

Electrode
material		 Number of
electrodes
in the
array		 Total sensing area Experimental
model		 Ref
carbon 2-3-7 10–20 µm diameter PC12 (97)
carbon 7 20 µm diameter PC12 (98)
carbon 8-10-12-15 10–50 µm diameter bovine adrenal chromaffin (50)
Pt 4 10 ×10 µm2 bovine adrenal chromaffin (25)
Pt 4 10 ×10 µm2 bovine adrenal chromaffin (38)
Pt 3 12 µm diameter bovine adrenal chromaffin, mast cells (10)
Pt 16-25-36 30 ×30 µm2 PC12 (84, 86)
Pt 16 20 µm × 25 µm2 bovine adrenal chromaffin (90)
BD-NCD 4 16 µm diameter bovine adrenal chromaffin (32, 33)
BD-NCD 4 18 µm diameter bovine adrenal chromaffin (63)
BD-NCD 9 22 µm diameter mouse/bovine adrenal chromaffin (35)
ITO, gold, DLC 4 12 µm × 12 µm2 bovine adrenal chromaffin (47)

BD-NCD: boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond, DLC: diamond like carbon; ITO: indium tin oxide.