ReaChR: A red-shifted variant of channelrhodopsin enables deep transcranial optogenetic excitation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1499-1508

  Lin, John Y ^a   Knutsen, Per Magne ^a   Muller, Arnaud ^a   Kleinfeld, David ^a   Tsien, Roger Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; ILLUMINATION; KINETICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; SKULL; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 84884906500     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3502     Document Type: Article

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