Chemogenetics Guide
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Guide
...tools are unresponsive to native ligands and are engineered to respond to small molecules that do not affect...Designer Drugs (DREADDs), like RASSLs, are based on engineered G-protein coupled receptors, but unlike RASSLs...Ligands Muscarinic-receptor based DREADDs were engineered to respond to nM concentrations of clozapine ...Actuator Modules (PSAMs, pronounced SAMs). PSAMs are engineered α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) domains...clinically approved drug, the PSAM domain was engineered to respond specifically to the anti-smoking drug...through viral injection or use of genetically engineered mouse models. For viral injection, Adeno-associated...chemogenetic plasmids . Additionally, genetically engineered animal models expressing hM3Dq, hM4Di, and rM3D...