Genetically encoded molecular tools for light-driven silencing of targeted neurons

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 196, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-61

  Chow, Brian Y ^a   Han, Xue ^b   Boyden, Edward S ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaerhodopsin; Causality; Cell types; Channelrhodopsin; Control; Halorhodopsin; Neural circuits; Neural silencing; Opsins; Optogenetics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; HALORHODOPSIN; OPSIN; PROTON PUMP;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHLORIDE PUMP; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; ION TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NATRONOMONAS PHARAONIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SILENCER GENE; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 84857097106     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59426-6.00003-3     Document Type: Chapter

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