Optogenetic manipulation of neural activity in freely moving Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-152

  Leifer, Andrew M ^a   Fang Yen, Christopher ^a,b   Gershow, Marc ^a   Alkema, Mark J ^c   Samuel, Aravinthan D T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; HALORHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETIC ILLUMINATION SYSTEM; OPTOGENETIC MANIPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CELLS; NEURONS; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHOTOBIOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79551556801     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1554     Document Type: Article

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