Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics
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...neuroscience where specific tissues, cell types, or even subcellular regions of a neuron need to be targeted...disease, neuroscientists need to be able to probe cells and circuits without disrupting normal brain function...it provides a noninvasive method for manipulating cell activity, especially neuronal firing.
What is chemogenetics...drugs. Once activated, chemogenetic receptors hijack cell signaling pathways and can lead to such responses...requires successfully introducing receptors to target cells. Targeted and specific delivery becomes especially...ability of agonists to successfully reach target cells while resulting in minimal off target effects. For...can elicit different responses depending on what cell type it is expressed in. The most common target ...