Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
...This light-induced excitation can take place in a tissue culture dish but can also happen in real-time inside...still require fiber-optic cannula implantation, but altering ChRgers so they can be activated with tissue-penetrating...ChRgers, however, have a higher conductance, so they can still depolarize neurons at lower MOIs.
Figure...the VTA is located in the midbrain, fiber-optic cannulas were still stereotaxically implanted into the ...mice’s skull near the M2 and secure a fiber optic cannula to the skull, leaving the brain intact. When the...