Development of photoactivatable drugs enables nicotinic optopharmacology
Sambashiva Banala, Matthew C. Arvin, Nicolas M. Bannon, Xiao-Tao Jin, Yong Wang, Guiqing Zhao, John J. Marshall, Kyle R. Gee, David L. Wokosin, Anis Contractor, Henry A. Lester, Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Ryan M. Drenan, Luke D. Lavis
This paper develops a method to create photoactivatable nicotine for optopharmacology studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
bioRxiv · Feb 5, 2018 · PreprintNeuroscience