Unveiling astrocytic control of cerebral blood flow with optogenetics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Masamoto, Kazuto ^a,b   Unekawa, Miyuki ^c   Watanabe, Tatsushi ^a   Toriumi, Haruki ^c   Takuwa, Hiroyuki ^b   Kawaguchi, Hiroshi ^b,f   Kanno, Iwao ^b   Matsui, Ko ^c   Tanaka, Kenji F ^d   Tomita, Yutaka ^c,e   Suzuki, Norihiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Tomita Hospital   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM CHLORIDE; BARIUM DERIVATIVE; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2, MOUSE; CHLORIDE; INDOMETACIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; RHODOPSIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LASER; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHLORIDES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INDOMETHACIN; LASERS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RHODOPSIN; TETRODOTOXIN; TRANSGENES; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 84935838387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11455     Document Type: Article

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