TABLE 1.
Materials.
| Name of material/Equipment | Company | Catalog number | Comments/Description |
| 0.9% Saline Sodium Chloride Injection Bag | Baxter Healthcare Corporation | 288-0006AA | SURGERY. To safely flush tissue other than the brain |
| Hanks’ Balanced Salt solution (HBSS) | MilliporeSigma Canada Co. | 55021C | SURGERY. Solution applied topically to the brain during surgery, to keep the brain from drying |
| Sugi cellulose absorbent triangles | Kettenbach GmbH & Co. KG, Germany | 001911 | SURGERY. To absorb excess solutions or blood from tissues |
| Dowsil Silicone sealant | Dow Corning | 3140 90ML MIL-A-46146 | SURGERY. For a rigid hydrophobic silicone chamber for holding HBSS |
| Ethilon Sutures 5-0 | Ethicon-Johnson & Johnson | 661H (nylon monofilament, FS-2, 45 cm strands) | RECOVERY SURGERY. To connect the skin flaps after the recovery surgery |
| Polysporin Complete ointment | Johnson & Johnson | 60245-43775 | RECOVERY SURGERY. To avoid infections during post-op recovery period; it contains three antibiotics plus lidocaine hydrochloride |
| Syringe Priming Kit | Chromatographic Specialties Inc. | HPRMKIT | VIRAL MICROINJECTIONS. Indispensable to load up the virus into the syringe |
| Syringe 10 μL removable needle | Hamilton | 701RN | VIRAL MICROINJECTIONS. To hold the virus |
| Glass micropipettes tubes | World Precision Instruments Inc. | 18100-3 (3IN BOROSIL GL 1.0 MM OD) | VIRAL MICROINJECTIONS. They will need to be pulled into shape |
| PHD ULTRATM Syringe Infuse/Withdraw Programmable Micropump | Harvard Apparatus | 70-3007 | VIRAL MICROINJECTIONS. For pumping the viral solution through the micropipette at an optimal low rate |
| Master9 Programmable Pulse Stimulator | A.M.P.I. | STIMULATION. For timing the sensory stimuli | |
| Electrical constant current stimulator | World Precision Instruments Inc. | A365 | STIMULATION. For generating electrical current sent to the piezoelectric actuator |
| Piezoelectric actuator | Piezo Systems Inc. | PSI-5A4E, Y-poled, double quick-mount bender | STIMULATION. For whisker stimulation |
| VDAQ 3001 | Optical Imaging Inc. | OPTICAL IMAGING. For data acquisition | |
| Camera lens | Nikon | 1987 (60 MM F/2.8 D-AF) | OPTICAL IMAGING. Optimal for wide-field OI-IS |
| Camera zoom lens | Edmund Optics | VZM1000i | OPTICAL IMAGING. Optimal for imaging at high-magnification |
| LED 530 nm | Mightex | BLS-LCS-0530-15-22 | OPTICAL IMAGING. LED for Optical Imaging |
| Electrode for acute insertion and recordings | NeuroNexus | A1 × 32-50-177-A32 | NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. Electrode characteristics customizable to the experimental needs |
| Optogenetic virus | Neurophotonics Centre – Molecular Tools Platform – Ulaval | Viral vector selected according to the scientific question | OPTOGENETICS. The viral vector to be injected into the brain |
| LED 470 or 595 nm | ThorLabs | M470F3, M595F2 | OPTOGENETICS. LED for optogenetic photostimulation |
| Multimode optical fiber | ThorLabs | FPC-1000-37-02SMA | OPTOGENETICS. Multimode Fiber Patchcord with 0.37 NA, 1000 μm core diameter and SMA connectors |
| DiI Vybrant cell-labeling solution | Life Technologies | V22885 | HISTOLOGY. For marking the track of the electrode |
| Cytochrome C from bovine heart | Sigma Aldrich | C3131-10MG | HISTOLOGY. For cytochrome oxidase staining |
| DAB (3,3′-Diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride) | Sigma Aldrich | D5905 | HISTOLOGY. For cytochrome oxidase staining |
| DAPI (4′,6-Diamidino-2-Phenylindole, Dilactate) | Thermo Fisher Scientific | D3571 | HISTOLOGY. For DAPI fluorescence counterstaining |