Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m.
...scientists monitor an animal’s movement in an open field box or a circular corridor apparatus using a camera...fear. Such a behavior can be monitored in an open field test (Alpar et al., 2018).
Locomotion can also be...Cre-dependent expression of Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a modified receptor protein that activates neurons upon light...