Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
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...or lentiviral vectors in our previous blog posts.
Viral vector injection
Viral vectors allow a tight ...is cloned into a viral shRNA expression vector and the vector particles are delivered into the brain region... region of interest.
AAV or lentivirus?
Both AAV and lentiviral vectors are used for intracerebral injections.... On the other hand, lentiviral vectors are superior packaging vectors for larger genes - they can hold...around 1012-1013 vg/ml (vector genomes per milliliter) and lentiviral vectors around 108 IU/ml (infectious...using viral vectors
By modulating neuronal gene expression and activity, you can use viral vectors to study...viral vectors blog posts
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