Source 1review2019Nature reviews. Neuroscience
Toolkit/photoswitchable tethered ligands
photoswitchable tethered ligands
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Summary
The supplied web research summary states that the review explicitly includes photoswitchable tethered ligands, and related item candidates identify this as an explicit methodological class across the anchor review and aligned literature.
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The review includes caged compounds, photoswitchable tethered ligands, and engineered light-sensitive receptors or channels as optical control modalities.
The review explicitly spans optogenetics and optopharmacology/photopharmacology for neuronal ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors, including caged compounds, photoswitchable tethered ligands, and engineered light-sensitive receptors/channels.
Named platforms aligned with the review's scope include LiGluR, LiGluN, LimGluR, optogating, ChR2, and Arch.
Primary papers for specific photoswitchable receptor platforms explicitly named in or strongly aligned with the review (LiGluR, LiGluN, LimGluR, optogating of P2X2)... Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2)... Arch.
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The supplied web research summary states that the review explicitly includes photoswitchable tethered ligands, and related item candidates identify this as an explicit methodological class across the anchor review and aligned literature.
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The review includes caged compounds, photoswitchable tethered ligands, and engineered light-sensitive receptors or channels as optical control modalities.
The review explicitly spans optogenetics and optopharmacology/photopharmacology for neuronal ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors, including caged compounds, photoswitchable tethered ligands, and engineered light-sensitive receptors/channels.
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