FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
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...remarkable technological advances have taken researchers to the threshold of a revolution in modern neuroscience... channelrhodopsins, the first two found in the Archaea, the third in green algae (Oesterhelt and Stoeckenius...In order to express opsins within the brain, researchers inject genetically modified viruses encoding ... functional topography of the neural circuit architecture of the brain regions associated with motivated... in pigmentation." Biochemical and biophysical research communications 78.1 (1977): 237-243. PubMed PMID... Chris, and Kimberly R. Thompson. "Overview on research and clinical applications of optogenetics." Current...development: the power of optogenetics for epilepsy research." Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 12 (2018)...