Independent optical excitation of distinct neural populations

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 338-346

  Klapoetke, Nathan C ^a,b,c,d   Murata, Yasunobu ^c,d   Kim, Sung Soo ^e   Pulver, Stefan R ^e   Birdsey Benson, Amanda ^c,d   Cho, Yong Ku ^a,b,c,d   Morimoto, Tania K ^a,b,c,d   Chuong, Amy S ^a,b,c,d   Carpenter, Eric J ^f   Tian, Zhijian ^g   Wang, Jun ^g   Xie, Yinlong ^g   Yan, Zhixiang ^g   Zhang, Yong ^g   Chow, Brian Y ^h   Surek, Barbara ⁱ   Melkonian, Michael ⁱ   Jayaraman, Vivek ^e   Constantine Paton, Martha ^c,d   Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^f,g   Boyden, Edward S ^a,b,c,d   more..

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRIMSON; CHRONOS; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; KINETICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RED LIGHT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALGAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 84895524488     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2836     Document Type: Article

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