New Method Tracks How Psychedelics Affect Neurons in Minutes
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- New publication from Kim and Olson Labs, which cites the Proteomics Core as the source of the data.
This article originally appeared on the College of Biological Sciences News.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a rapid, noninvasive tool to track the neurons and biomolecules activated in the brain by psychedelic drugs. The protein-based tool, which is called Ca2+-activated Split-TurboID, or CaST, is described in research published in Nature Methods.
The research was conducted in collaboration between the Olson Lab and C. Kim Lab.
David Olson is the founding director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics and a professor in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine. Christina Kim is an assistant professor of neurology at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and School of Medicine, and an affiliate of the UC Davis Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics.
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