Channelrhodopsin-2-assisted circuit mapping of long-range callosal projections

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 663-668

  Petreanu, Leopoldo ^a   Huber, Daniel ^a   Sobczyk, Aleksander ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; ION CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SLICE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMISPHERE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RELIABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; RETINALDEHYDE; RHODOPSIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 34247548430     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1891     Document Type: Article

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