Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 20, 2019, 12:31 p.m.
...strategy is to knockdown a gene with RNAi. Here, a short sequence targeting the gene is cloned into a viral...whether it is an overexpression gene, downregulation via RNAi or gene editing/deletion using CRISPR. In...conjunction with a genetic manipulation so that behavior can be linked to a specific gene or brain region...viral vector should be used?
Modifying gene expression
Generally speaking, one may want to achieve either... application.
Genetic manipulation can also reduce expression levels of certain genes. A popular method...can now precisely control where and when certain genes are expressed to investigate their role in a specific...specific brain region. One option is to overexpress a gene that alters neuronal function directly such as receptor...