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Truszkowski TLS, James EJ, Hasan M, Wishard TJ, Liu Z, Pratt KG, Cline HT, Aizenman CD. Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein knockdown in the developing Xenopus tadpole optic tectum results in enhanced feedforward inhibition and behavioral deficits.
Neural Development, in press (2016)
Felch DL, Khakhalin AS, Aizenman CD. Multisensory integration in the developing tectum is constrained by the balance of excitation and inhibition
eLife May 24;4. pii: e15600 (2016) Link to paper in eLife
Liu Z, Ciarleglio CM, Hamodi A, Aizenman CD, Pratt KG (2016) A population of gap junction coupled neurons drives recurrent network activity in a developing visual circuit.
J. Neurophysiology 115:1477-86 (2016). PubMed
Truszkowski TL, Aizenman CD. Neurobiology: Setting the Set Point for Neural Homeostasis”
Curr Biol. Dec 7;25(23):R1132-3 (2015) PubMed
Ciarleglio CM, Khakhalin AS, Wang AF, Constantino AC, Yip SP, Aizenman CD. Multivariate analysis of electrophysiological diversity of Xenopus visual neurons during development and plasticity.
eLife Nov 14;4. pii: e11351 (2015) Link to paper in eLife
E J James, J Gu, C Ramirez-Vizcarrondo, M Hasan, TLS Truszkowski, Y Tan, P Oupravanh, AS Khakhalin, CD Aizenman. Valproate-induced neurodevelopmental deficits in Xenopus laevis tadpoles.
Journal of Neuroscience –37(7):3218-29 (2015). PubMed
Khakhalin AS, Koren D, Gu J, Xu H, Aizenman CD. “Excitation and inhibition in recurrent networks mediate collision avoidance in Xenopus tadpoles.”
European Journal of Neuroscience 2014, 40(6):2948-62 PubMed
Dong W, Aizenman CD. “A competition-based mechanism mediates developmental refinement of tectal neuron receptive fields”
Journal of Neuroscience 2012, 32(47):16872-9 PubMed
Khakhalin AS, Aizenman CD. “GABAergic transmission and chloride equilibrium potential are not modulated by pyruvate in the developing optic tectum of Xenopus laevis tadpoles.”
PLoS One. 2012;7(4):e34446. Epub 2012 Apr 4 PubMed
Spawn A, Aizenman CD. “Abnormal visual processing and increased seizure susceptibility result from developmental exposure to the biocide methylisothiazolinone.”
Neuroscience. 2012 Jan 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed
H Xu, AV Nurmikko, CD Aizenman. “Visual experience-dependent maturation of correlated neuronal activity patterns in a developing visual system.”
Journal of Neuroscience, 31(22):8025-36 (2011). PubMed
Deeg KE, Aizenman CD. “Sensory modality-specific homeostatic plasticity in the developing optic tectum.”
Nature Neuroscience 14(5):548-50 (2011). PubMed
Bell MR, Belarde JA, Johnson HF, Aizenman CD. “A neuroprotective role for polyamines in a Xenopus tadpole model of epilepsy.”
Nat Neurosci. 2011 Apr;14(4):505-12. Epub 2011 Mar 6. PubMed
Ruthazer ES, Aizenman CD. “Learning to see: patterned visual activity and the development of visual function.” (review)
Trends Neurosci. 2010 Apr;33(4):183-92. PubMed
Lee RH, Mills EA, Schwartz N, Bell MR, Deeg KE, Ruthazer ES, Marsh-Armstrong N, Aizenman CD. “Neurodevelopmental effects of chronic exposure to elevated levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in a developing visual system.”
Neural Dev. 2010 Jan 12;5:2. PubMed
Deeg KE, Sears IB and Aizenman CD. “Development of multisensory convergence in the Xenopus optic tectum.”
J Neurophysiol. 2009 Dec;102(6):3392-404. PubMed
Pratt KG, Aizenman CD. “Multisensory integration in mesencephalic trigeminal neurons in Xenopus tadpoles”
J Neurophysiol. 102(1):399-412, 2009. PubMed
Dong W, Lee, RH, Xu H, Yang S, Pratt KG, Cao V, Song Y-K, Nurmikko A, Aizenman CD. “Visual Avoidance in Xenopus Tadpoles is Correlated With the Maturation of Visual Responses in the Optic Tectum”
J Neurophysiol. 2009 Feb;101(2):803-15 PubMed
Aizenman, CD and Pratt, KG. “There’s more than one way to scale a synapse” (Review)
Neuron, 58(5): 651-3 (2008) PubMed
Pratt KG, Dong W and Aizenman CD. “Development and spike-timing dependent plasticity of recurrent excitation in the Xenopus optic tectum ”
Nature Neuroscience, 11(4):467-75, (2008) PubMed
Xu, Davitt, Dong, Song, Patterson III, Aizenman and Nurmikko. Combining Multicore Imaging Fiber With Matrix Addressable Blue/Green LED Arrays for Spatiotemporal Photonic Excitation at Cellular Level”
IEEE JSTQE 14(1):167-70 (2008). Link
Pratt KG and Aizenman CD. Homeostatic regulation of intrinsic excitability and synaptic transmission in a developing visual circuit.
J Neuroscience, 27 (31):8268 (2007) PubMed
Aizenman CD and Cline HT. Enhanced visual activity in vivo forms nascent synapses in the developing retinotectal projection.
J Neurophysiol. 2007 Apr;97(4):2949-57. PubMed
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