Featured Publications

• Calcraft PJ, Ruas M, Pan Z, Cheng X, Arredouani A, Hao X, Tang J, Rietdorf K, Teboul L, Chuang KT, Lin P, Xiao R, Wang C, Zhu Y, Lin Y, Wyatt CN, Parrington J, Ma J, Evans AM, Galione A, Zhu MX. NAADP mobilizes calcium from acidic organelles through two-pore channels. Nature. 2009 May 28;459(7246):596-600

• Sherwood T, Franke R, Conneely S, Joyner J, Arumugan P, Askwith C. Identification of protein domains that control proton and calcium sensitivity of ASIC1a. J Biol Chem. 2009 Oct 9;284(41):27899-907

• Cao R, Li A, Cho HY. mTOR signaling in epileptogenesis: too much of a good thing? J Neurosci. 2009 Oct 7;29(40):12372-3

• Uchida A, Alami NH, Brown A. Tight Functional Coupling of Kinesin-1A and Dynein Motors in the Bidirectional Transport of Neurofilaments. Mol Biol Cell. 2009 Oct 7

• Boon KL, Xiao S, McWhorter ML, Donn T, Wolf-Saxon E, Bohnsack MT, Moens CB, Beattie CE. Zebrafish survival motor neuron mutants exhibit presynaptic neuromuscular junction defects. Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Oct 1;18(19):3615-25

• Arduini BL, Bosse KM, Henion PD.Genetic ablation of neural crest cell diversification. Development. 2009 Jun;136(12):1987-94

• Colakoglu G, Brown A. Intermediate filaments exchange subunits along their length and elongate by end-to-end annealing. J Cell Biol. 2009 Jun 1;185(5):769-77

• A.J. Fischer, M.A. Scott, E.R. Ritchey and P. Sherwood (2009). Mitogen-activated protein kinase-signaling regulates the ability of the Müller glia to proliferate and protect retinal neurons against excitotoxicity. Glia 57(14): 1538-1552

• Alami NH, Jung P, Brown A. 2009. Myosin Va increases the efficiency of neurofilament transport by decreasing the duration of long-term pauses. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(20):6625-34

• Kigerl KA, Gensel JC, Ankeny DP, Alexander JK, Donnelly DJ, Popovich PG. Identification of two distinct macrophage subsets with divergent effects causing either neurotoxicity or regeneration in the injured mouse spinal cord.  J Neurosci. 2009 Oct 28;29(43):13435-44

• Gensel JC, Nakamura S, Guan Z, van Rooijen N, Ankeny DP, Popovich PG. Macrophages promote axon regeneration with concurrent neurotoxicity. J Neurosci. 2009 Mar 25;29(12):3956-68

•  Fischer AJ, Scott MA, Tuten W. Mitogen-activated protein kinase-signaling stimulates Müller glia to proliferate in acutely damaged chicken retina. Glia. 2009 Jan 15;57(2):166-81

• Weil, ZM, Norman, GJ, DeVries, AC, Berntson, GG & Nelson, RJ 2009. Photoperiod alters autonomic regulation of the heart.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 106:4525-4530.

• Karelina K, Norman GJ, Zhang N, Morris JS, Peng H, DeVries AC. 2009. Social isolation alters neuroinflammatory response to stroke. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 106:5895-5900.