Optical inhibition of motor nerve and muscle activity

Introduction: There is no therapeutic approach that provides precise and rapidly reversible inhibition of motor nerve and muscle activity for treatment of spastic hypertonia. Methods: We used optogenetics to demonstrate precise and rapidly reversible light-mediated inhibition of motor nerve and musc...

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Main Authors: Liske, Holly (Author), Towne, Chris (Author), Anikeeva, Polina Olegovna (Contributor), Zhao, Shengli (Author), Feng, Guoping (Contributor), Deisseroth, Karl (Author), Delp, Scott (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co., 2014-11-19T20:31:14Z.
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