Short promoters in viral vectors drive selective expression in mammalian inhibitory neurons, but do not restrict activity to specific inhibitory cell-types

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Nathanson, Jason L ^a,b   Jappelli, Roberto ^a   Scheeff, Eric D ^a   Manning, Gerard ^a   Obata, Kunihiko ^c   Brenner, Sydney ^a   Callaway, Edward M ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortex; Fugu; Inhibitory interneuron; Promoter; Transcription factor; Viral vector

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958183212     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.04.019.2009     Document Type: Article

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