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...remarkable technological advances have taken researchers to the threshold of a revolution in modern neuroscience... channelrhodopsins, the first two found in the Archaea, the third in green algae (Oesterhelt and Stoeckenius...In order to express opsins within the brain, researchers inject genetically modified viruses encoding ... functional topography of the neural circuit architecture of the brain regions associated with motivated...7030. PubMed PMID: 18614669. Belzung, Catherine, Marc Turiault, and Guy Griebel. "Optogenetics to study... in pigmentation." Biochemical and biophysical research communications 78.1 (1977): 237-243. PubMed PMID... Chris, and Kimberly R. Thompson. "Overview on research and clinical applications of optogenetics." Current...

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