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List of works by Paivi Torkkeli

A context-free data compression approach to measuring information transmission by action potentials.

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Acetylcholine receptors in spider peripheral mechanosensilla.

scientific article published on 24 September 2005

Activation of GABAA receptors modulates all stages of mechanoreception in spider mechanosensory neurons

scientific article published in January 2012

Calcium buffering and clearance in spider mechanosensory neurons.

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

Carbon dioxide and fruit odor transduction in Drosophila olfactory neurons. What controls their dynamic properties?

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

Ca²(+) /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II mediates the octopamine-induced increase in sensitivity in spider VS-3 mechanosensory neurons.

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Changes in electrophysiological properties of photoreceptors in Periplaneta americana associated with the loss of screening pigment

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Characterization of a transient outward current in a rapidly adapting insect mechanosensory neuron.

scientific article published in November 1994

Co-localization of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid and Glutamate in Neurons of the Spider Central Nervous System

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Contributions of voltage- and Ca2+-activated conductances to GABA-induced depolarization in spider mechanosensory neurons.

scientific article published on 23 January 2008

Dendritic excitability and localization of GABA-mediated inhibition in spider mechanoreceptor neurons.

scientific article published in July 2004

Distinct roles of light-activated channels TRP and TRPL in photoreceptors of Periplaneta americana

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Distribution and function of GABAB receptors in spider peripheral mechanosensilla.

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Dynamic characterization of Drosophila antennal olfactory neurons indicates multiple opponent signaling pathways in odor discrimination.

scientific article published in January 2011

EAG channels expressed in microvillar photoreceptors are unsuited to diurnal vision.

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Expression of Cys-loop receptor subunits and acetylcholine binding protein in the mechanosensory neurons, glial cells, and muscle tissue of the spider Cupiennius salei

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Feedback modulation of transduction by calcium in a spider mechanoreceptor.

scientific article published on 7 October 2010

Frequency response functions and information capacities of paired spider mechanoreceptor neurons

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

From stress and strain to spikes: mechanotransduction in spider slit sensilla.

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GABA and glutamate receptors have different effects on excitability and are differentially regulated by calcium in spider mechanosensory neurons.

scientific article published on 29 August 2012

Immunocytochemical localization of sodium channels in an insect central nervous system using a site-directed antibody.

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Inactivation of voltage-activated Na(+) currents contributes to different adaptation properties of paired mechanosensory neurons

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

Information transmission at 500 bits/s by action potentials in a mechanosensory neuron of the cockroach.

scientific article published in February 1998

Inhibitory glutamate receptors in spider peripheral mechanosensory neurons.

scientific article published in August 2005

Ionic selectivity of mechanically activated channels in spider mechanoreceptor neurons.

scientific article published in October 1997

Mapping extracellular excitability in an insect mechanoreceptor neuron.

scientific article published in December 1993

Mechanosensitive ion channels of spiders: mechanical coupling, electrophysiology, and synaptic modulation

scientific article published on 17 April 2007

Mechanotransduction channel Piezo is widely expressed in the spider, Cupiennius salei, mechanosensory neurons and central nervous system

scientific article published on 12 April 2021

Mechanotransduction in spider slit sensilla.

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Neuromodulation of arthropod mechanosensory neurons.

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Phenotypic plasticity in Periplaneta americana photoreceptors

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Predicting the responses of mechanoreceptor neurons to physiological inputs by nonlinear system identification.

scientific article published on March 2001

RNA interference supports a role for Nanchung-Inactive in mechanotransduction by the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, tactile spine

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Random stimulation of spider mechanosensory neurons reveals long-lasting excitation by GABA and muscimol.

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Ratiometric calcium concentration estimation using LED excitation during mechanotransduction in single sensory neurons.

scientific article published on 10 May 2007

Shunting versus inactivation: Simulation of GABAergic inhibition in spider mechanoreceptors suggests that either is sufficient

scientific article published in June 2006

Spider peripheral mechanosensory neurons are directly innervated and modulated by octopaminergic efferents.

scientific article published in February 2005

The Power Law of Sensory Adaptation: Simulation by a Model of Excitability in Spider Mechanoreceptor Neurons

scientific article published on 19 October 2007

The distribution of cholinergic neurons and their co-localization with FMRFamide, in central and peripheral neurons of the spider Cupiennius salei.

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

The time course of sensory adaptation in the cockroach tactile spine.

scientific article published in August 1994

Transcriptome Analysis of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems of the Spider Cupiennius salei Reveals Multiple Putative Cys-Loop Ligand Gated Ion Channel Subunits and an Acetylcholine Binding Protein

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Transcriptome analysis and RNA interference of cockroach phototransduction indicate three opsins and suggest a major role for TRPL channels

scientific article published on 24 July 2015

Upstream open reading frames and Kozak regions of assembled transcriptome sequences from the spider Cupiennius salei. Selection or chance?

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Voltage-activated potassium outward currents in two types of spider mechanoreceptor neurons.

scientific article published in June 1999