Integration of optogenetics with complementary methodologies in systems neuroscience

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 222-235

  Kim, Christina K ^a   Adhikari, Avishek ^b   Deisseroth, Karl ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROGEL; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCES; OPTOGENETICS;

EID: 85015298869     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2017.15     Document Type: Review

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