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1-Pyrene-butyrylcholine: a fluorescent probe for the cholinergic system

scientific article published on August 1, 1975

A comparison of current-voltage relations for full and partial agonists

scientific article published on October 1, 1978

A family of AMPA-selective glutamate receptors

scientific journal article

A glutamate receptor channel with high affinity for domoate and kainate

scientific article published on April 1, 1992

A juvenile form of postsynaptic hippocampal long-term potentiation in mice deficient for the AMPA receptor subunit GluR-A

scientific journal article

A look at membrane patches with a scanning force microscope

scientific article

A new cellular mechanism for coupling inputs arriving at different cortical layers

scientific article published in March 1999

AMPA receptor channels with long-lasting desensitization in bipolar interneurons contribute to synaptic depression in a novel feedback circuit in layer 2/3 of rat neocortex.

scientific article

Acetylcholine receptor channel subtype directs the innervation pattern of skeletal muscle

scientific article published on June 2005

Acetylcholine-induced ionic channels in rat skeletal muscle

scientific article published on October 1, 1978

Action of brief pulses of glutamate on AMPA/kainate receptors in patches from different neurones of rat hippocampal slices

scientific article published in December 1992

Action potential initiation and propagation in rat neocortical pyramidal neurons

scientific article published on December 15, 1997

Active propagation of somatic action potentials into neocortical pyramidal cell dendrites

scientific article

Activity-dependent action potential invasion and calcium influx into hippocampal CA1 dendrites

scientific article published in April 1995

Agonist-activated ionic channels in acetylcholine receptor reconstituted into planar lipid bilayers

scientific article published on June 1, 1981

Amplification of EPSPs by axosomatic sodium channels in neocortical pyramidal neurons

scientific article published on November 1, 1995

Anatomical Correlates of Local, Translaminar, and Transcolumnar Inhibition by Layer 6 GABAergic Interneurons in Somatosensory Cortex

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Assembly of an adult type acetylcholine receptor in a mouse cell line transfected with rat muscle ϵ-subunit DNA

scientific article published on September 17, 1990

Automated axon length quantification for populations of labelled neurons

scientific article

Automated three-dimensional detection and counting of neuron somata.

scientific article published on 21 March 2009

Axonal initiation and active dendritic propagation of action potentials in substantia nigra neurons

scientific article published in September 1995

BACE inhibition-dependent repair of Alzheimer's pathophysiology

scientific article

Back-propagating action potentials mediate calcium signalling in dendrites of bitufted interneurons in layer 2/3 of rat somatosensory cortex

scientific article

Backpropagating action potentials in neurones: measurement, mechanisms and potential functions

scientific article

Bernard Katz. 26 March 1911 -- 20 April 2003: Elected 1952

biographical article

Ca(2+)-permeable AMPA and NMDA receptor channels in basket cells of rat hippocampal dentate gyrus

scientific article published on 01 June 1995

Ca2+ buffering and action potential-evoked Ca2+ signaling in dendrites of pyramidal neurons

scientific article

Calcium action potentials restricted to distal apical dendrites of rat neocortical pyramidal neurons

scientific article published on December 15, 1997

Calcium channel types with distinct presynaptic localization couple differentially to transmitter release in single calyx-type synapses.

scientific article

Calcium dynamics associated with a single action potential in a CNS presynaptic terminal

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Calcium dynamics in single spines during coincident pre- and postsynaptic activity depend on relative timing of back-propagating action potentials and subthreshold excitatory postsynaptic potentials

scientific article published on August 4, 1998

Calcium electrogenesis in distal apical dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal cells at a critical frequency of back-propagating action potentials

scientific article published on December 1999

Calcium influx and transmitter release in a fast CNS synapse

scientific article published in October 1996

Calcium permeability increase of endplate channels in rat muscle during postnatal development

scientific article published in October 1996

Calcium secretion coupling at calyx of Held governed by nonuniform channel-vesicle topography.

scientific article published in March 2002

Calcium transients in dendrites of neocortical neurons evoked by single subthreshold excitatory postsynaptic potentials via low-voltage-activated calcium channels

scientific article

Calcium-permeable AMPA-kainate receptors in fusiform cerebellar glial cells

scientific article published in June 1992

Cell type-specific thalamic innervation in a column of rat vibrissal cortex

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Cell type-specific three-dimensional structure of thalamocortical circuits in a column of rat vibrissal cortex

scientific article

Cell-type specific properties of pyramidal neurons in neocortex underlying a layout that is modifiable depending on the cortical area.

scientific article published on 30 July 2009

Channel-lining residues of the AMPA receptor M2 segment: structural environment of the Q/R site and identification of the selectivity filter.

scientific article published in June 2001

Coincidence detection in pyramidal neurons is tuned by their dendritic branching pattern

scientific article

Conditional restoration of hippocampal synaptic potentiation in Glur-A-deficient mice

scientific journal article

Conductance properties of single inwardly rectifying potassium channels in ventricular cells from guinea-pig heart

scientific article published on February 1, 1984

Contribution of intracolumnar layer 2/3-to-layer 2/3 excitatory connections in shaping the response to whisker deflection in rat barrel cortex

scientific article

Control by asparagine residues of calcium permeability and magnesium blockade in the NMDA receptor

scientific article published on September 4, 1992

Control of synaptic strength and timing by the release-site Ca2+ signal

scientific article

Correction of conductance measurements in non-space-clamped structures: 1. Voltage-gated K+ channels

scientific article published on June 2003

Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses

scientific article published in June 2006

Cortical Dependence of Whisker Responses in Posterior Medial Thalamus In Vivo

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Corticothalamic Spike Transfer via the L5B-POm Pathway in vivo

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Critical role of soluble amyloid-β for early hippocampal hyperactivity in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

scientific article

Decamethonium both opens and blocks endplate channels

scientific article published on June 1, 1978

Deep two-photon brain imaging with a red-shifted fluorometric Ca2+ indicator

scientific article

Dendritic coding of multiple sensory inputs in single cortical neurons in vivo

scientific article

Dendritic voltage-gated K+ conductance gradient in pyramidal neurones of neocortical layer 5B from rats

scientific article

Detailed passive cable models of whole-cell recorded CA3 pyramidal neurons in rat hippocampal slices.

scientific article

Determinants of ca2+ permeability in both TM1 and TM2 of high affinity kainate receptor channels: Diversity by RNA editing

scientific article published on March 1, 1993

Developmental and regional expression in the rat brain and functional properties of four NMDA receptors

scientific journal article

Developmental regulation of five subunit specific mRNAs encoding acetylcholine receptor subtypes in rat muscle

scientific article published in January 1989

Developmental switch in the short-term modification of unitary EPSPs evoked in layer 2/3 and layer 5 pyramidal neurons of rat neocortex

scientific article

Differences in Ca2+ permeability of AMPA-type glutamate receptor channels in neocortical neurons caused by differential GluR-B subunit expression

scientific article

Differential Expression Patterns of Five Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit Genes in Rat Muscle During Development

scientific article published on June 1, 1995

Differential contribution of the NR1- and NR2A-subunits to the selectivity filter of recombinant NMDA receptor channels

scientific article published in March 1996

Differential regulation of MyoD and myogenin mRNA levels by nerve induced muscle activity

scientific article published in May 1991

Differential regulation of muscle acetylcholine receptor gamma- and epsilon-subunit mRNAs

scientific article published in October 1987

Differential responses of hippocampal subfields to cortical up-down states

scholarly article

Dimensions and ion selectivity of recombinant AMPA and kainate receptor channels and their dependence on Q/R site residues

scientific article published on October 1996

Dimensions of a projection column and architecture of VPM and POm axons in rat vibrissal cortex

scientific article published on 7 May 2010

Dimensions of the narrow portion of a recombinant NMDA receptor channel

scientific article

Divalent ion permeability of AMPA receptor channels is dominated by the edited form of a single subunit

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Dynamic receptive fields of reconstructed pyramidal cells in layers 3 and 2 of rat somatosensory barrel cortex

scientific article published on 29 August 2003

Dynamic representation of whisker deflection by synaptic potentials in spiny stellate and pyramidal cells in the barrels and septa of layer 4 rat somatosensory cortex

scientific article published in August 2002

Effect of changes in action potential shape on calcium currents and transmitter release in a calyx-type synapse of the rat auditory brainstem

scientific article published on February 1999

Effects of proteolytic enzymes on function and structure of frog neuromuscular junctions

scientific article

Efficacy and connectivity of intracolumnar pairs of layer 2/3 pyramidal cells in the barrel cortex of juvenile rats

scientific article

Electrical activity and postsynapse formation in adult muscle: gamma-AChRs are not required

scientific article published in December 2000

Elementary steps in synaptic transmission revealed by currents through single ion channels

scientific article

Expression of AMPA-glutamate receptor B subunit in rat hippocampal GABAergic neurons

scientific article published in August 1996

Facilitation of presynaptic calcium currents in the rat brainstem

scientific article published in November 1998

Fast and slow components of unitary EPSCs on stellate cells elicited by focal stimulation in slices of rat visual cortex

scientific article published on April 1, 1992

Fast events in single-channel currents activated by acetylcholine and its analogues at the frog muscle end-plate

scientific article

Fast extraction of neuron morphologies from large-scale SBFSEM image stacks

scientific article published on March 22, 2011

Flip and Flop: A Cell-Specific Functional Switch in Glutamate-Operated Channels of the CNS

scientific article published on September 28, 1990

Fluctuations in the microsecond time range of the current through single acetylcholine receptor ion channels

scientific article

Fractional calcium currents through recombinant GluR channels of the NMDA, AMPA and kainate receptor subtypes

scientific article published on June 1, 1995

Frequency and dendritic distribution of autapses established by layer 5 pyramidal neurons in the developing rat neocortex: comparison with synaptic innervation of adjacent neurons of the same class

scientific article

From Muscle Endplate to Brain Synapses: A Short History of Synapses and Agonist-Activated Ion Channels

scientific article published on March 1, 1998

From single cells and single columns to cortical networks: dendritic excitability, coincidence detection and synaptic transmission in brain slices and brains

scientific article

Functional and molecular distinction between recombinant rat GABAA receptor subtypes by Zn2+

scientific article published on December 1, 1990

Functional properties of recombinant rat GABAA receptors depend upon subunit composition

scientific article published on June 1, 1990

Functionally independent columns of rat somatosensory barrel cortex revealed with voltage-sensitive dye imaging.

scientific article

Gating properties of acetycholine receptor in newly formed neuromuscular synapses

scientific article published on January 26, 1978

Glutamate receptor channels in isolated patches from CA1 and CA3 pyramidal cells of rat hippocampal slices

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Glutamate-gated ion channels in the brain. Genetic mechanism for generating molecular and functional diversity

scientific article published on February 1, 1992

Heteromeric NMDA receptors: molecular and functional distinction of subtypes

scientific article (publication date: 22 May 1992)

Heteromultimeric channels formed by rat brain potassium-channel proteins

scientific article published in June 1990

High-probability uniquantal transmission at excitatory synapses in barrel cortex

scientific article published in December 2003

Importance of AMPA receptors for hippocampal synaptic plasticity but not for spatial learning

scientific article

Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches

scientific article published on August 1, 1981

In vivo, low-resistance, whole-cell recordings from neurons in the anaesthetized and awake mammalian brain

scientific article published on 17 April 2002

Inhibitory interneurons in a cortical column form hot zones of inhibition in layers 2 and 5A.

scientific article

Interaction of sensory responses with spontaneous depolarization in layer 2/3 barrel cortex

scientific article published on 31 October 2003

Ion channels in synaptic vesicles from Torpedo electric organ

scientific article

Ionic channels and proteins in synaptic vesicles: facts and speculations

scientific article published on January 1990

Ionic channels in synaptic vesicles: are they involved in transmitter release?

scientific article published on December 1989

L2/3 interneuron groups defined by multiparameter analysis of axonal projection, dendritic geometry, and electrical excitability

scientific article published on 18 September 2008

Linear integration of spine Ca2+ signals in layer 4 cortical neurons in vivo

scientific article

Local neurotrophic repression of gene transcripts encoding fetal AChRs at rat neuromuscular synapses

scientific article published on August 1, 1995

Location of a delta-subunit region determining ion transport through the acetylcholine receptor channel

scientific article

Mechanism of anion permeation through channels gated by glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid in mouse cultured spinal neurones

scientific article published on April 1987

Membrane properties underlying spontaneous activity of denervated muscle fibres

scientific article published in May 1974

Modeling a layer 4-to-layer 2/3 module of a single column in rat neocortex: interweaving in vitro and in vivo experimental observations

scholarly article

Molecular dissection of hippocampal theta-burst pairing potentiation

scientific article

Molecular distinction between fetal and adult forms of muscle acetylcholine receptor

scientific article

Monosynaptic connections between pairs of L5A pyramidal neurons in columns of juvenile rat somatosensory cortex

scientific article

Morphometric analysis of the columnar innervation domain of neurons connecting layer 4 and layer 2/3 of juvenile rat barrel cortex

scientific article published on October 2003

Multibranch activity in basal and tuft dendrites during firing of layer 5 cortical neurons in vivo

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

NMDAR channel segments forming the extracellular vestibule inferred from the accessibility of substituted cysteines

scientific article published in March 1999

Neural factors regulate AChR subunit mRNAs at rat neuromuscular synapses

scientific article published on July 1991

Neuronal correlates of local, lateral, and translaminar inhibition with reference to cortical columns

scientific article published in October 2008

Neurophysiology of Vision

scientific article

Neurotrophic control of channel properties at neuromuscular synapses of rat muscle

scientific article published on April 1983

Nobel Lecture. Elementary steps in synaptic transmission revealed by currents through single ion channels

scientific article

Noise analysis of drug induced voltage clamp currents in denervated frog muscle fibres

scientific article published on July 1, 1976

Nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filtering of three-dimensional image data from two-photon microscopy

scientific article

Nucleotide sequence of the rat muscle acetylcholine receptor epsilon-subunit

scientific article published on November 1988

Number and laminar distribution of neurons in a thalamocortical projection column of rat vibrissal cortex

scientific article

Organization and somatotopy of corticothalamic projections from L5B in mouse barrel cortex

scientific article

Patch Clamp Techniques for Studying Ionic Channels in Excitable Membranes

scientific article published on January 1, 1984

Patch clamp techniques used for studying synaptic transmission in slices of mammalian brain

scientific article published on December 1989

Patch pipettes are more useful than initially thought: simultaneous pre- and postsynaptic recording from mammalian CNS synapses in vitro and in vivo

scientific article published on 10 October 2006

Phase-locking of hippocampal interneurons' membrane potential to neocortical up-down states

scientific article published on 15 October 2006

Physiology and anatomy of synaptic connections between thick tufted pyramidal neurones in the developing rat neocortex

scientific article published on April 1997

Postnatal development of synaptic transmission in local networks of L5A pyramidal neurons in rat somatosensory cortex

scientific article published on 4 October 2007

Postsynaptic Ca2+ influx mediated by three different pathways during synaptic transmission at a calyx-type synapse.

scientific article published in December 1998

Quantal analysis of excitatory postsynaptic currents at the hippocampal mossy fiber-CA3 pyramidal cell synapse.

scientific article published on January 1994

Quantal analysis of inhibitory synaptic transmission in the dentate gyrus of rat hippocampal slices: a patch-clamp study

scientific article published on November 1, 1990

Quantal components of unitary EPSCs at the mossy fibre synapse on CA3 pyramidal cells of rat hippocampus

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

R-type Ca 2+ currents evoke transmitter release at a rat central synapse

scientific article published on April 14, 1998

Rat brain serotonin receptors in Xenopus oocytes are coupled by intracellular calcium to endogenous channels

scientific article

Reactivation of the same synapses during spontaneous up states and sensory stimuli

scientific article

Reciprocal intraglomerular excitation and intra- and interglomerular lateral inhibition between mouse olfactory bulb mitral cells

scientific article published on July 2002

Reduced cortical inhibition in a mouse model of familial childhood absence epilepsy

scientific article

Regulation of synaptic efficacy by coincidence of postsynaptic APs and EPSPs

scientific article (publication date: 10 January 1997)

Relationships between structure, in vivo function and long-range axonal target of cortical pyramidal tract neurons

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Relative abundance of subunit mRNAs determines gating and Ca2+ permeability of AMPA receptors in principal neurons and interneurons in rat CNS

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Rings of negatively charged amino acids determine the acetylcholine receptor channel conductance

scientific article published in October 1988

Role of acetylcholine receptor subunits in gating of the channel

scientific article published in December 1985

Semi-automated three-dimensional reconstructions of individual neurons reveal cell type-specific circuits in cortex

scientific article published on July 2011

Sensory integration across space and in time for decision making in the somatosensory system of rodents

scholarly article

Shosaku Numa (1929–1992)

scientific article published in Nature

Simulation of signal flow in 3D reconstructions of an anatomically realistic neural network in rat vibrissal cortex

scientific article published on 25 June 2011

Spatial profile of dendritic calcium transients evoked by action potentials in rat neocortical pyramidal neurones

scientific article

Spatiotemporal dynamics of sensory responses in layer 2/3 of rat barrel cortex measured in vivo by voltage-sensitive dye imaging combined with whole-cell voltage recordings and neuron reconstructions.

scientific article published in February 2003

Speed Controls the Amplitude and Timing of the Hippocampal Gamma Rhythm

scientific article published on June 24, 2011

Spiking in primary somatosensory cortex during natural whisking in awake head-restrained rats is cell-type specific

scientific article

Spontaneous persistent activity in entorhinal cortex modulates cortico-hippocampal interaction in vivo

scientific article published on October 7, 2012

Structural determinants of channel conductance in fetal and adult rat muscle acetylcholine receptors

scientific article published in May 1996

Structural determinants of ion flow through recombinant glutamate receptor channels

scientific article

Structure of the NMDA receptor channel M2 segment inferred from the accessibility of substituted cysteines

scientific article published in August 1996

Sub- and suprathreshold receptive field properties of pyramidal neurones in layers 5A and 5B of rat somatosensory barrel cortex

scientific article published on 14 January 2004

Supralinear Ca2+ influx into dendritic tufts of layer 2/3 neocortical pyramidal neurons in vitro and in vivo.

scientific article published in September 2003

Synaptic Conductance Estimates of the Connection Between Local Inhibitor Interneurons and Pyramidal Neurons in Layer 2/3 of a Cortical Column

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Synaptic changes in layer 2/3 underlying map plasticity of developing barrel cortex

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Synaptic connections between layer 4 spiny neurone-layer 2/3 pyramidal cell pairs in juvenile rat barrel cortex: physiology and anatomy of interlaminar signalling within a cortical column

scientific article

Target-cell-specific facilitation and depression in neocortical circuits

scientific article published in August 1998

The GABAA receptor family: molecular and functional diversity

scientific journal article

The KA-2 subunit of excitatory amino acid receptors shows widespread expression in brain and forms ion channels with distantly related subunits.

scientific article published in April 1992

The Patch Clamp Technique

scientific article

The effect of contractile activity on fibrillation and extrajunctional acetylcholine-sensitivity in rat muscle maintained in organ culture

scientific article published in February 1974

The effects of GluA1 deletion on the hippocampal population code for position

scientific article published on June 2012

Three-dimensional axon morphologies of individual layer 5 neurons indicate cell type-specific intracortical pathways for whisker motion and touch

scientific article

Three-dimensional reconstruction of a calyx of Held and its postsynaptic principal neuron in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body.

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Threonine in the selectivity filter of the acetylcholine receptor channel

scientific article published on April 1, 1992

Transmitted light brightfield mosaic microscopy for three-dimensional tracing of single neuron morphology

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Unsupervised whisker tracking in unrestrained behaving animals

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Voltage-dependence of drug-induced conductance in frog neuromuscular junction

scientific article published on June 1, 1975

Voltage-dependent inactivation of inward-rectifying single-channel currents in the guinea-pig heart cell membrane

scientific article published on February 1, 1984

Whisker maps of neuronal subclasses of the rat ventral posterior medial thalamus, identified by whole-cell voltage recording and morphological reconstruction

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Whisker movements evoked by stimulation of single pyramidal cells in rat motor cortex

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Whole-cell recordings in freely moving rats

scientific article published in August 2006