Imágenes neuronales ultrarrápidas de la dinámica de la dopamina con sensores codificados genéticamente diseñados

Tommaso Patriarchi1, Jounhong Ryan Cho2, Katharina Merten3

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis, 2700 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 2, 2018
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron dLight1, una nueva herramienta para observar la actividad de la dopamina en el cerebro. Esto permite una medición precisa de la liberación de dopamina, lo que ayuda al estudio del aprendizaje y el control motor en ratones.

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