{"id":2987,"date":"2022-11-30T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cryo-em\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2023-04-13T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T21:02:32","slug":"scientists-elucidate-how-dreadd-technology-highjacks-neuronal-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cryo-em\/2022\/11\/scientists-elucidate-how-dreadd-technology-highjacks-neuronal-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Elucidate How DREADD Technology Highjacks Neuronal Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cryo-em\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1040\/2022\/12\/zhang_roth-lab-560x724-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cryo-em\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1040\/2022\/12\/zhang_roth-lab-560x724-1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cryo-em\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1040\/2022\/12\/roth-leads-26-9-million-project-to-create-better-psychiatric-medications-image2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cryo-em\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1040\/2022\/12\/roth-leads-26-9-million-project-to-create-better-psychiatric-medications-image2-300x205.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>The UNC School of Medicine lab of Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, solved the high-resolution, complex structures of drug-like compounds bound to designer brain cell receptors, paving the way for the creation of next-generation chemogenetic tools. Postdoc Shicheng Zhang, PhD, led this research published in Nature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2022\/11\/scientists-elucidate-how-dreadd-technology-highjacks-neuronal-activity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC School of Medicine lab of Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, solved the high-resolution, complex structures of drug-like compounds bound to designer brain cell receptors, paving the way for the creation of next-generation chemogenetic tools. Postdoc Shicheng Zhang, PhD, led this research published in Nature. 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