A Chimera Na+-Pump Rhodopsin as an Effective Optogenetic Silencer.

With the progress of optogenetics, the activities of genetically identified neurons can be optically silenced to determine whether the neurons in question are necessary for the network performance of the behavioral expression. This logical induction is expected to be improved by the application of t...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Razuanul Hoque, Toru Ishizuka, Keiichi Inoue, Rei Abe-Yoshizumi, Hiroyuki Igarashi, Takaaki Mishima, Hideki Kandori, Hiromu Yawo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5115807?pdf=render