Optical inhibition

Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry

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Microbial chloride pumps enabled optical inhibition alongside light-driven excitation.

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Feng Zhang, Li-Ping Wangorcid, Martin Brauner, Jana F Liewald, Kenneth Kay, Natalie Watzke, Phillip G Wood, Ernst Bamberg, Georg Nagel, Alexander Gottschalkorcid, Karl Deisseroth