Nice integration of multiple technologies (chemo, opto and tetanus toxin) to interrogate meal termination
Paper here.
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Retro-DREADD and axonal silencing
Very nice use of chemogenetic and viral technology here to obtain axonal silencing of projections via Retro-DREADD in different brain areas
NATURE: memory linking rescue by activating cells with DREADDs
Nice ultimate experiment from this paper by labs of Golshani and Silva
Cool DREADD paper deconstructs cortical desynchronization and arousal
Nucleus incertus promotes cortical desynchronization and behavioral arousal
Cre dependent DREADD mice
As we deposited these mice in JAX some time ago, we have now published a fairly complete characterization of said mice. These should be useful for a large number of applications.
NEURON: using DREADDs as GPCRs
I once was meeting with a well-known neuroscientist who said DREADDs were 'cool channels'. Of course they are GPCRs and here is a nice paper showing how they can be used to identify signaling pathways in neurons responsible for behavior.
NEURON: Bidirectional DREADD modulation of Transplanted DA Neurons
Nice proof of concept story here for bi-directional modulation of transplanted neurons....one can imagine all sorts of potential uses for this.
DREADDs to deconstruct how orbitofrontal cortex modulates reward sensitivity
The Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Sensitivity to Outcome Value
DREADD + CRISPR + iPS cells: cool paper
An interesting paper and another proof-of-concept study combining chemogenetics, CRISPR and iPS cell technology.