Development of transgenic animals for optogenetic manipulation of mammalian nervous system function: progress and prospects for behavioral neuroscience.

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Published in Behav Brain Res on March 06, 2013

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Jonathan T Ting1, Guoping Feng

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1: McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: jtting@mit.edu.

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