The development and application of optogenetics

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue , 2011, Pages 389-412

  Fenno, Lief ^a   Yizhar, Ofer ^a   Deisseroth, Karl ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriorhodopsin; Channelrhodopsin; Electrophysiology; Halorhodopsin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; OPSIN; PROTON PUMP; RHODOPSIN; SERINE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MODULATION; MUTATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MODELS, GENETIC; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; OPSINS;

EID: 79959873914     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-061010-113817     Document Type: Article

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