Optogenetics and research progress in animal models of brain diseases
10.3969.j.issn.1671-7856.2017.02.014
- VernacularTitle:光遗传技术在神经系统疾病动物模型中的应用
- Author:
Rui ZHOU
;
Chuan QIN
- Keywords:
Optogenetics;
Neuropsychiatric diseases;
Models;
animal
- From:
Chinese Journal of Comparative Medicine
2017;27(2):74-80
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Optogenetics is a technology invented by Boyden in 2005 that allows targeted, fast control of precisely defined events in neural system. It was widely used in Parkinson disease and emotional neural circuit studies. Optogenetics was selected by Nature Methods for method of the year 2010. This paper reviews on the research advances and applications of optogenetics.
