In vivo photorelease of GABA in the mouse cortex

Electrical stimulation has been used for more than 100 years in neuroscientific and biomedical research as a powerful tool for controlled perturbations of neural activity. Despite quickly driving neuronal activity, this technique presents some important limitations, such as the impossibility to acti...

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Main Authors: V. Lopes-dos-Santos, J. Campi, O. Filevich, S. Ribeiro, R. Etchenique
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2011-07-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2011000700012&lng=en&tlng=en