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Silencing Synapses with DREADDs

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NEURON
Volume 82, Issue 4, Pages 723-725

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.05.002

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  1. NIMH NIH HHS [U19 MH082441] Funding Source: Medline

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In this issue of Neuron, Stachniak et al. (2014) determine that the chemogenetic silencer hM4Di-DREADD suppresses presynaptic glutamate release, and by generating an axon-targeted hM4Di variant they demonstrate that it can be used to locally silence synaptic transmission in neural circuits.

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