{"id":1449,"date":"2022-01-25T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:47:29","slug":"how-does-ultrasound-excite-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"How does ultrasound excite neurons?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1450\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound excites cortical neurons by opening specific mechanosensitive ion channels, leading to gradual calcium accumulation, activation of calcium-gated channels, depolarization and spiking. Congratulations to Sangjin and collaborators on this detailed biophysical study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoo S, Mittelstein DR, Hurt RC, Lacroix JJ, Shapiro MG*.\u00a0<strong>Focused ultrasound excites cortical neurons via mechanosensitive calcium accumulation and ion channel amplification.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em>\u00a013, 493 (2022).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-28040-1\">article<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focused ultrasound excites cortical neurons by opening specific mechanosensitive ion channels, leading to gradual calcium accumulation, activation of calcium-gated channels, depolarization and spiking. Congratulations to Sangjin and collaborators on this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapirolab.caltech.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}