FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
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Blog Post
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Oct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.
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Recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) have become increasingly popular for gene delivery...immune responses (Fenno et al., 2011). However, rAAVs lack the ability to specifically infect defined ... promoters, on the other side, are too long for rAAVs, which can only package sequences shorter than 5...vectors in combination with transgenic animals or rAAVs expressing Cre under a specific cell-type promoter... 2019).
For example, Taylor and colleagues used rAAV FLEx-based vectors to study the neural circuitry...