Fast GCaMPs for improved tracking of neuronal activity

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sun, Xiaonan R ^a   Badura, Aleksandra ^a   Pacheco, Diego A ^a   Lynch, Laura A ^a   Schneider, Eve R ^a   Taylor, Matthew P ^a   Hogue, Ian B ^a   Enquist, Lynn W ^a   Murthy, Mala ^a   Wang, Samuel S H ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHELATING AGENT; CALMODULIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN CALMODULIN PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN CALMODULIN PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAMMAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPONSE TIME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HEARING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TIME;

MAMMALIA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883390990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3170     Document Type: Article

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