Next-generation transgenic mice for optogenetic analysis of neural circuits

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Asrican, Brent ^a   Augustine, George J ^{b,c,d,e,f,g,h}   Berglund, Ken ^a   Chen, Susu ^c,d,f,i   Chow, Nick ^c,d   Deisseroth, Karl ^j   Feng, Guoping ^a,k   Gloss, Bernd ^a   Hira, Riichiro ^l,m,n   Hoffmann, Carolin ^c,d   Kasai, Haruo ⁿ   Katarya, Malvika ^c,d   Kim, Jinsook ^c,d,f   Kudolo, John ^b   Lee, Li Ming ^c,d   Lo, Shun Qiang ^c,d,e,f   Mancuso, James ^c,d   Matsuzaki, Masanori ^l,m,n   Nakajima, Ryuichi ^b   Qiu, Li ^a   Tan, Gregory ^c,d   Tang, Yanxia ^c,d,f   Ting, Jonathan T ^a,k   Tsuda, Sachiko ^c,d,f   Wen, Lei ^b   Zhang, Xuying ^a   Zhao, Shengli ^a   more..

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^d AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^h INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^m JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Channelrhodopsin; Cortex; Hippocampus; Optogenetics; Photoinhibition; Photostimulation; Pons

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN; HALORHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PONS; PROMOTER REGION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; THALAMUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; CORTEX; METHODOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; RHODOPSIN;

CEREBELLUM; CHANNELRHODOPSIN; CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PONS;

EID: 84878037012     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00160     Document Type: Article

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