FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
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Blog Post
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Oct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.
...flow of electric charges across cell membranes and maintain membrane potential in response to visible light...across the axon's membrane: once a certain number of positive ions crosses the cell membrane, a threshold ...rhodopsins enable ions to flow across the axon’s membrane, thereby controlling neural activity (Bernstein...Stoeckenius. "Rhodopsin-like protein from the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium." Nature new biology...