Multichannel Systems LTP-Director Manual - Manual (Page 25)

Welcome to the LTP-Director
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4 Welcome to the LTP-Director
4.1
Welcome to LTP-Director and LTP-Analyzer Software
The LTP-Director is an easy to use software package to do standardized LTP and LTD recordings
in hippocampal acute slices. The LTP-Director can control MEA amplifiers and stimulus generators
from Multi Channel Systems MCS GmbH from within one software.
Currently, the LTP-Director can control only voltage stimulation pulses.
The software package for long term potentiation and long term depression experiments consists
of two separate programs. The LTP-Director is for online recording of data, the LTP-Analyzer
is for offline analysis of data prior generated with the LTP-Director.
Because the experimental setup for LTP (long term potentiation) or LTD (long term depression)
is often similar, the idea was to develop an easy to use software, which is able to do the data
acquisition and data analysis for a standardized form of experiment. Most of the functions are
self explanatory, if you are familiar with LTP experiments.
LTP-Director and LTP-Analyzer are structured in two main windows each: Test mode (testing
the slice), measurement mode (recording data), raw data mode (reviewing recorded data),
and analysis mode (analyzing recorded data).