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.

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