CO₂ in the spotlight

Elife. 2015 May 13:4:e08086. doi: 10.7554/eLife.08086.

Abstract

Optogenetic techniques have revealed that retrotrapezoid neurons are essential for sensitivity to carbon dioxide.

Keywords: electrophysiology; genetics; hindbrain; mouse; neuroscience; respiration; transcription factors.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors / genetics*
  • Carbon Dioxide / pharmacology*
  • Homeodomain Proteins / genetics*
  • Neurons / drug effects*
  • Respiration / drug effects*
  • Respiratory Center / drug effects*
  • Transcription Factors / genetics*

Substances

  • Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
  • Homeodomain Proteins
  • Transcription Factors
  • Carbon Dioxide