Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing
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Blog Post
...(2017). AAV-mediated Anterograde Transsynaptic Tagging: Mapping Input-Defined Functional Neural Pathways...auditory neuronal circuitry in vivo. A variant of RABV has been developed to only label a neuronal connection...example only dopaminergic neurons, neuronal tracing has the added benefit of only labelling the subset of... regions used. Evidence for retrograde transport has been found for AAV1, -2, -5, -7, -8 (Taymans et al...AAV5 (Aschauer et al., 2013). Anterograde transport has been observed for AAV1, -5, -8 (McFarland et al.,...variability compared to chemical tracers. rAAV2-retro also has lower affinity for heparin, which possibly explains...vectors cover some of these attributes and their use has allowed for the visualization of single connection...