Molecular tools to capture active neural circuits.

Front Neural Circuits

Graduate School of Brain Science, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan.

Published: August 2024

To understand how neurons and neural circuits function during behaviors, it is essential to record neuronal activity in the brain . Among the various technologies developed for recording neuronal activity, molecular tools that induce gene expression in an activity-dependent manner have attracted particular attention for their ability to clarify the causal relationships between neuronal activity and behavior. In this review, we summarize recently developed activity-dependent gene expression tools and their potential contributions to the study of neural circuits.

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