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Light signals boost stroke recovery

Nature

 

512,

 

351

 

(28 August 2014)

 

doi:10.1038/512351a

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27 August 2014

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Mice that have had a stroke regain motor function after specific brain neurons are stimulated by light.

Using a technique called optogenetics, Michelle Cheng, Gary Steinberg and their colleagues at Stanford University in California studied mice that were genetically engineered to express a light-sensitive protein in a group of neurons in…