ChAT-ChR2-EYFP Mice Have Enhanced Motor Endurance But Show Deficits in Attention and Several Additional Cognitive Domains

Acetylcholine (ACh) is an important neuromodulator in the nervous system implicated in many forms of cognitive and motor processing. Recent studies have used bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) transgenic mice expressing channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) protein under the control of the choline acetyltran...

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Main Authors: Kolisnyk, Benjamin (Author), Guzman, Monica S. (Author), Raulic, Sanda (Author), Fan, Jue (Author), Magalhaes, Ana C. (Author), Feng, Guoping (Contributor), Gros, Robert (Author), Prado, Vania F. (Author), Prado, Marco A. M. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Neuroscience, 2014-09-02T14:45:00Z.
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