Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 9, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
... faint signals (Schwab et al., 1979; Buttry & Goshgarian, 2015). Nevertheless, the use of these tracers...visual, and auditory neuronal circuitry in vivo. A variant of RABV has been developed to only label a neuronal...proteins VP1, VP2, and VP3. To date several hundred variants, or serotypes, have been found naturally or have...Janelia Research Campus also developed a new AAV variant, rAAV2-retro, that migrates retrogradely at higher...toxicity, higher specificity and reduced technical variability compared to chemical tracers. rAAV2-retro also... Central PMCID: PMC3174680.
Buttry, J.L., and Goshgarian, H.G. (2015). WGA-Alexa Transsynaptic Labeling...D.V., and Karpova, A.Y. (2016). A designer AAV variant permits efficient retrograde access to projection...