Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
... as channelrhodopsins (ChRs) makes them light-responsive. When light shines on excitatory channelrhodopsin-expressing...channelrhodopsin-expressing neurons, the channelrhodopsins respond by opening and allowing an influx of ions into ...expressing mice did not have this self-stimulation response. This result showed that ChRger2 stronger photocurrent...