Neuroanatomy and transgenic technologies

• Main Author: Laurent Gautron (auth)
• Other Authors: Alexander C Jackson (auth), Chen Liu (auth), Makoto Fukuda (auth), Michael Lazarus (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; gene delivery; mouse models; tracing; transgenesis; morphology; adeno-associated virus; Fluorescent reporters; neuronal circuits
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Neuroanatomists increasingly rely on techniques enabling them to manipulate genes in defined brain cell populations. In particular, engineered transgenes, which encode a variety of fluorescent reporter proteins can be inserted into the genome or delivered into desired brain regions using viral vecto...