A study reporting spatiotemporal stimulation and inhibition of synaptic activity is made possible by the development of synaptically targeted, light-controlled G protein–coupled receptors.
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Pin, JP. Tuning synaptic activity with light-controlled GPCRs. Nat Neurosci 16, 377–379 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3363
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