Integrating optogenetic and pharmacological approaches to study neural circuit function: Current applications and future directions

Pharmacological Reviews

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 156-170

  Stuber, Garret D ^a   Mason, Alex O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CONNECTOME; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL; OPTOGENETICS; PHARMACOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; NERVE TRACT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OPTOGENETICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878225488     PISSN: 00316997     EISSN: 15210081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/pr.111.005611     Document Type: Review

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