- Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols
- Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
- Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts
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- About this book
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This volume focuses on the optogenetics workflow, and covers topics on viral vectors, targeting strategies, choice on opsins, animal models and readouts, and applications in systems neuroscience. This book shows readers how to identify the critical aspects of each methodological step, and how to determine the necessary level of complexity to address the particular research question. In Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory.
Comprehensive and cutting-edge, Optogenetics: A Roadmap is a valuable guide for both the optogenetics novices and the experts.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Selection of Viral Vectors for Optogenetic Studies
Pages 1-23
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Cell Type-Specific Targeting Strategies for Optogenetics
Pages 25-42
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Molecular Engineering of Channelrhodopsins for Enhanced Control over the Nervous System
Pages 43-62
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Optogenetic Control of Intracellular Signaling: Class II Opsins
Pages 63-73
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Optogenetics in Stem Cell Research: Focus on the Central Nervous System
Pages 75-87
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Optogenetics: A Roadmap
- Editors
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- Albrecht Stroh
- Series Title
- Neuromethods
- Series Volume
- 133
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-7417-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-7417-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-7415-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-8479-4
- Series ISSN
- 0893-2336
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 302
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
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