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Chemogenetics Flashcards

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What is chemogenetics?

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Use unique (inert) ligands to activate engineered receptors.

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What can we use chemogenetics for?

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Can use this approach to reversibly alter function of neurons in circuits, and alter behaviour

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What can neurotransmitters bind to?

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Membrane receptors (GPCRs)

These activate signalling pathways and change neural activity

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What is a common chemogenetic approach?

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DREADDs

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What does DREADD stand for?

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Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs

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What are DREADDs

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Receptors are engineered to interact with pharmacologically inert ligand (designer drug), no longer activated by neurotransmitters

Administration of the designer drug allows non-invasive control of function of cells, so you can give this drug orally or in water without invasive approaches

Cell-type specific expression of the exogenous receptor- drug is designed not to activate other receptors and the drug doesnt get activated by endogenous neurotransmitters e.g. dopamine so it means it has great cell specificity

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What is the temporal scale of chemogenetics?

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Slower than optogenetic lights
Drug can take hours to take effect

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What are variants of DREADD

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hM3Dq
hM4Di

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How does hM3Dq work?

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How does hM4Di work?

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How are dreads similar to optogenetics?

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Can both excite/inhibit neural activity

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How are dreads different to optogenetics?

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What is an issue with DREADDs?

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How do we drive the expression of DREADDs?

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What is the ligand for DREADD?

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CNO

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How can CNO be administered?

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What an assumption about CNO?

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CNO when given systemically was assumed to cross the BBB

18
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What is the issue with this assumption?

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Wasn’t actually crossing the BBB, it was binding

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How does this make us cautious?

20
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How can we control for this issue with CNO?

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What is the advantage of chemogenetics over optogenetics?

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Doesnt need light or fibres

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What is a disadvantage compared to optogenetics?

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What was the first paper to combine in vivo Ca2+ measurements and fMRI?

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Schulz et al. (2012)

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What did Schulz et al. (2012) find?

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Demonstration that it was possible to simultaneously measure fMRI BOLD and cellular calcium responses to electrical paw stimulation in their set up

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What is an important consideration?

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Air - filled spaces around inserted optic fibre with agar to compensate for this

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