Nicholas Spitzer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Canaday Spitzer is a Distinguished Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. Education Spitzer received his Ph.D from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and University College, London.
Nicholas Spitzer's Published Works
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Published Works
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Primary Event in Glutamate Neurotoxicity (1996) (796)
- Electrical activity in early neuronal development (2006) (707)
- Distinct aspects of neuronal differentiation encoded by frequency of spontaneous Ca2+ transients (1995) (567)
- In vivo regulation of axon extension and pathfinding by growth-cone calcium transients (1999) (486)
- Adaptation in the chemotactic guidance of nerve growth cones (2002) (428)
- Activity-dependent homeostatic specification of transmitter expression in embryonic neurons (2004) (395)
- Embryonic development of identified neurones: differentiation from neuroblast to neurone (1979) (378)
- Filopodial Calcium Transients Promote Substrate-Dependent Growth Cone Turning (2001) (282)
- Neurotransmitter Switching in the Adult Brain Regulates Behavior (2013) (279)
- Ion channels in development. (1979) (264)
- The development of the action potential mechanism of amphibian neurons isolated in culture. (1976) (252)
- The changing view of neural specificity. (1985) (250)
- Calcium signaling in neuronal development. (2011) (237)
- A developmental handshake: neuronal control of ionic currents and their control of neuronal differentiation. (1991) (202)
- Dynamic interactions of cyclic AMP transients and spontaneous Ca2+ spikes (2002) (188)
- Calcium-induced release of calcium regulates differentiation of cultured spinal neurons (1991) (177)
- Modeling non-syndromic autism and the impact of TRPC6 disruption in human neurons (2014) (173)
- Developmental changes in the inward current of the action potential of Rohon‐Beard neurones (1977) (167)
- Coding of neuronal differentiation by calcium transients (2000) (164)
- Regulation of Calcineurin by Growth Cone Calcium Waves Controls Neurite Extension (2000) (161)
- Regulation of growth cone behavior by calcium: new dynamics to earlier perspectives. (2000) (148)
- Spontaneous calcium influx and its roles in differentiation of spinal neurons in culture. (1990) (141)
- Spontaneous Ca2+ spikes and waves in embryonic neurons: signaling systems for differentiation (1994) (140)
- Orchestrating neuronal differentiation: patterns of Ca2+ spikes specify transmitter choice (2004) (136)
- Breaking the code: regulation of neuronal differentiation by spontaneous calcium transients. (1997) (130)
- Embryonic development of identified neurons: origin and transformation of the H cell (1981) (124)
- Visual identification of nerve terminals in living isolated skeletal muscle (1972) (121)
- Activity-dependent neurotransmitter respecification (2012) (121)
- Embryonic development of identified neurons: temporal pattern of morphological and biochemical differentiation. (1979) (119)
- Embryonic development of identified neurons: segment-specific differences in the H cell homologues (1981) (114)
- Illumination controls differentiation of dopamine neurons regulating behaviour (2008) (111)
- Activity-dependent neuronal differentiation prior to synapse formation: the functions of calcium transients (2002) (108)
- Early differentiation of vertebrate spinal neurons in the absence of voltage-dependent Ca2+ and Na+ influx. (1984) (107)
- Action potentials, calcium transients and the control of differentiation of excitable cells (1994) (106)
- Role of calcium and protein kinase C in development of the delayed rectifier potassium current in xenopus spinal neurons (1991) (102)
- Outside and in: development of neuronal excitability (2002) (91)
- Phenotypic checkpoints regulate neuronal development (2010) (91)
- Activity-dependent neurotransmitter-receptor matching at the neuromuscular junction (2007) (89)
- Embryonically Expressed GABA and Glutamate Drive Electrical Activity Regulating Neurotransmitter Specification (2008) (86)
- Spatial and temporal second messenger codes for growth cone turning (2011) (86)
- Development of the action potential in embryo amphibian neuronsin vivo (1976) (86)
- Activity-Dependent Expression of Lmx1b Regulates Specification of Serotonergic Neurons Modulating Swimming Behavior (2010) (85)
- Development of electrical excitability in embryonic neurons: mechanisms and roles. (1998) (83)
- Electrical excitability: a spectrum of properties in the progeny of a single embryonic neuroblast. (1980) (81)
- Differences in Number of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Associated with Summer and Winter Photoperiods in Humans (2016) (80)
- Neurotransmitter Switching in the Developing and Adult Brain. (2017) (80)
- The development of electrical properties of identified neurones in grasshopper embryos. (1981) (80)
- A critical period of transcription required for differentiation of the action potential of spinal neurons (1989) (79)
- The Challenge of Connecting the Dots in the B.R.A.I.N. (2013) (75)
- Neurotransmitter Switching? No Surprise (2015) (73)
- Specific Frequencies of Spontaneous Ca2+ Transients Upregulate GAD 67 Transcripts in Embryonic Spinal Neurons (2000) (72)
- Calcium dependence of differentiation of GABA immunoreactivity in spinal neurons (1993) (71)
- Reassembly of protein-lipid complexes into large bilayer vesicles: perspectives for membrane reconstitution. (1980) (71)
- The absence of calcium blocks impulse-evoked release of acetylcholine but not de novo formation of functional neuromuscular synaptic contacts in culture (1984) (69)
- A Calcium Signaling Cascade Essential for Myosin Thick Filament Assembly in Xenopus Myocytes (1998) (69)
- The appearance and development of neurotransmitter sensitivity in Xenopus embryonic spinal neurones in vitro. (1984) (69)
- Developmental regulation of potassium channels and the impact on neuronal differentiation. (1992) (68)
- Spontaneous calcium transients regulate myofibrillogenesis in embryonic Xenopus myocytes. (1996) (67)
- Enkephalin reduces quantal content at the frog neuromuscular junction (1983) (67)
- Miniature end-plate potentials at mammalian neuromuscular junctions poisoned by botulinum toxin. (1972) (67)
- Spontaneous calcium transients regulate neuronal plasticity in developing neurons. (1995) (65)
- Changes in densities and kinetics of delayed rectifier potassium channels during neuronal differentiation (1988) (65)
- Temporal Regulation of Shaker- andShab-Like Potassium Channel Gene Expression in Single Embryonic Spinal Neurons during K+ Current Development (1996) (65)
- The appearance and development of chemosensitivity in Rohon—Beard neurones of the Xenopus spinal cord (1982) (59)
- Calcium signaling in the developing Xenopus myotome. (1999) (56)
- Development of GABA Circuitry of Fast-Spiking Basket Interneurons in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex of erbb4-Mutant Mice (2013) (56)
- Activity-dependent competition regulates motor neuron axon pathfinding via PlexinA3 (2013) (54)
- Fundamental Neuroscience: Fourth Edition (2012) (52)
- The ionic basis of the resting potential and a slow depolarizing response in Rohon‐Beard neurones of Xenopus tadpoles. (1976) (51)
- Local calcium transients contribute to disappearance of pFAK, focal complex removal and deadhesion of neuronal growth cones and fibroblasts. (2005) (51)
- Genetic patterns of correlation among subcortical volumes in humans: Results from a magnetic resonance imaging twin study (2011) (51)
- New dimensions of neuronal plasticity (1999) (50)
- Second Messenger Pas de Deux: The Coordinated Dance Between Calcium and cAMP (2006) (50)
- Autonomous early differentiation of neurons and muscle cells in single cell cultures. (1986) (46)
- Voltage‐ and stage‐development uncoupling of Rohon‐Beard neurones during embryonic development of Xenopus tadpoles (1982) (45)
- The mature electrical properties of identified neurones in grasshopper embryos (1981) (43)
- Neuronal activity regulates neurotransmitter switching in the adult brain following light-induced stress (2018) (43)
- Neurotransmitter Switching Regulated by miRNAs Controls Changes in Social Preference (2017) (43)
- Enkephalin reduces calcium action potentials in Rohon-Beard neurons in vivo (1983) (42)
- How GABA generates depolarization (2010) (41)
- Ca2+-Permeable AMPA Receptors and Spontaneous Presynaptic Transmitter Release at Developing Excitatory Spinal Synapses (1999) (41)
- Homeostatic activity-dependent paradigm for neurotransmitter specification. (2005) (39)
- AMPA and NMDA receptors expressed by differentiating Xenopus spinal neurons. (1998) (38)
- cJun phosphorylation integrates calcium spike activity and tlx3 expression to regulate neurotransmitter specification (2010) (38)
- Spontaneous activity: functions of calcium transients in neuronal differentiation. (1995) (35)
- Reserve pool neuron transmitter respecification: Novel neuroplasticity (2012) (35)
- Neurite Outgrowth and In Vivo Sensory Innervation Mediated by a CaV2.2–Laminin β2 Stop Signal (2008) (34)
- Development of voltage-dependent and ligand-gated channels in excitable membranes. (1994) (33)
- Non-Cell-Autonomous Mechanism of Activity-Dependent Neurotransmitter Switching (2014) (33)
- Contexts for Dopamine Specification by Calcium Spike Activity in the CNS (2011) (33)
- Differentiation of electrical excitability in motoneurons (2000) (33)
- Sustained upregulation in embryonic spinal neurons of a Kv3.1 potassium channel gene encoding a delayed rectifier current. (2000) (33)
- Fundamental Neuroscience, Second Edition (2002) (32)
- Properties of Ectopic Neurons Induced byXenopusNeurogenin1 Misexpression (1998) (32)
- Spontaneous Calcium Spike Activity in Embryonic Spinal Neurons Is Regulated by Developmental Expression of the Na+, K+-ATPase β3 Subunit (2009) (31)
- Exercise enhances motor skill learning by neurotransmitter switching in the adult midbrain (2019) (30)
- Differentiation of delayed rectifier potassium current in embryonic amphibian myocytes. (1991) (30)
- Implications of activity-dependent neurotransmitter–receptor matching (2008) (29)
- Antisense Suppression of Potassium Channel Expression Demonstrates Its Role in Maturation of the Action Potential (2000) (29)
- Development of membrane properties in vertebrates (1981) (28)
- Both barium and calcium activate neuronal potassium currents. (1987) (25)
- Neurotransmitter phenotype plasticity: An unexpected mechanism in the toolbox of network activity homeostasis (2012) (25)
- Calcium: first messenger (2008) (25)
- Calcium transients regulate patterned actin assembly during myofibrillogenesis (2004) (25)
- Biological Information Processing: Bits of Progress (1997) (24)
- Nature and nurture in brain development (2004) (23)
- LOW RESISTANCE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CELLS IN THE DEVELOPING ANTHER OF THE LILY (1970) (21)
- Purposeful patterns of spontaneous calcium transients in embryonic spinal neurons. (1997) (19)
- Calcium in the function of the nervous system: new implications. (2005) (19)
- Ultrastructural development of Rohon‐Beard neurons: Loss of intramitochondrial granules parallels loss of calcium action potentials (1979) (17)
- The Development of Electrical Excitability (1982) (16)
- Coincidence detection enhances appropriate wiring of the nervous system. (2004) (16)
- Calcium regulates neuronal differentiation both directly and via co-cultured myocytes. (1993) (16)
- IGFBP2 Plays an Essential Role in Cognitive Development during Early Life (2019) (15)
- Improved molecular toolkit for cAMP studies in live cells (2011) (14)
- Low pH selectively blocks calcium action potentials in amphibian neurons developing in culture (1979) (14)
- Convertible modes of inactivation of potassium channels in Xenopus myocytes differentiating in vitro. (1995) (13)
- Decoding Neurotransmitter Switching: The Road Forward (2020) (13)
- Absence of action potentials in frog slow muscle fibres paralysed by botulinum toxin (1974) (12)
- Target-Dependent Regulation of Neurotransmitter Specification and Embryonic Neuronal Calcium Spike Activity (2010) (10)
- What do rohon-beard cells do? (1984) (10)
- We've Got NERVE: A Call to Arms for Neuroscience Education (2009) (9)
- The Differentiation of Membrane Properties of Spinal Neurons (1984) (9)
- Brain Connectivity and Brain Size (2009) (8)
- Mechanism for neurotransmitter-receptor matching (2020) (8)
- Brain Awareness Week and Beyond: Encouraging the Next Generation (2009) (8)
- Development of electrical excitability: mechanisms and roles. (1998) (7)
- Calcium and gene expression. (1994) (6)
- Neuroscience: A bar code for differentiation (2009) (6)
- On the basis of delayed depolarization and its role in repetitive firing of Rohon‐Beard neurones in Xenopus tadpoles. (1984) (6)
- Photoperiod‐induced neurotransmitter plasticity declines with aging: An epigenetic regulation? (2020) (5)
- Viewing neuromuscular junctions in live, unstained skeletal muscle. (1971) (5)
- A Rosetta stone for analysis of human membrane protein function (2008) (5)
- Photoperiod-induced neurotransmitter plasticity declines with aging: an epigenetic regulation? (2019) (4)
- Editorial: Dynamics of cyclic nucleotide signaling in neurons (2015) (3)
- Ontogeny State of the Art Report (1982) (3)
- The Early Differentiation of Neuronal Membrane Properties (1984) (3)
- The control of early development of neuronal excitability (1985) (2)
- Imaging and manipulating calcium transients in developing Xenopus spinal neurons. (2013) (2)
- Erratum: Activity-dependent neurotransmitter-receptor matching at the neuromuscular junction (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (January 2, 2007) 104, 1 (335-340) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607450104)) (2007) (1)
- Activity-dependent specification of dopaminergic neurons in the embryonic nervous system (2008) (1)
- Neuroscience education: the impreative for outreach (2010) (1)
- Correction: In vivo regulation of axon extension and pathfinding by growth-cone calcium transients (1999) (1)
- Neuroscience Neurotransmitter-tailored dendritic trees (2015) (1)
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Physiological Properties and Factors Affecting Migration of Neural Precursor Cells in the Adult Olfactory Bulb A dissertation in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Neurosciences by (2007) (0)
- Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Positioning of Quantum Dots (2020) (0)
- SpontaneousCalciumSpikeActivityinEmbryonicSpinal NeuronsIsRegulatedbyDevelopmentalExpressionofthe Na,K-ATPase3Subunit (2009) (0)
- Editorial Board (2010) (0)
- Exercise enhances motor skill learning by neurotransmitter switching in the adult midbrain (2020) (0)
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Building a Better Molecular Toolkit for cAMP Studies in Live Cells A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Biology by (2010) (0)
- Neuronal Development (1982) (0)
- mGluRs in the Entorhinal Cortex Regulation of Glutamate Release by Group III Differential Actions of PKA and PKC in the (2015) (0)
- Calcium Signals Regulate Neurotransmitter Phenotype (2013) (0)
- Mechanisms of Synapse Formation: Activity-Dependent Selection of Neurotransmitters and Receptors (2009) (0)
- Correction (2004) (0)
- Contributors (2020) (0)
- Phencyclidine and methamphetamine cause cognitive deficits by changing pyramidal neuron transmitter identity in the prefrontal cortex (2022) (0)
- GABA Specification in the Embryonic CNS: Genes, Activity and Target-Derived Factors (1970) (0)
- Editorial on Dynamics of cAMP Signaling in Neurons: Sub-cellular Compartmentalization and Physiological Implications (2015) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Global epigenomic reconfiguration during mammalian brain development. (2013) (0)
- Neurotransmitter phenotype plasticity: from calcium signaling to functional consequences (2020) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Local generation of glia is a major astrocyte source in postnatal cortex. (2012) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Unique processing during a period of high excitation/inhibition balance in adult-born neurons. (2012) (0)
- Nilius Signaling 2 + The Role of Transient Receptor Potential Cation Channels in Ca (2010) (0)
- Do bugs have brains? - Introducing invertebrate neuroscience to precollege students and the public (2003) (0)
- 16.4 n&v MH IF (2009) (0)
- Neurons and Calcium Signaling in Mammalian Central mGluR 1 / TRPC 3-mediated Synaptic Transmission (2010) (0)
- Global and Local Regulation of Neuronal Differentiation by Calcium Transients (2003) (0)
- Synaptic transmission makes history (2005) (0)
- Erratum for the Research Article: “Neurotransmitter switching in the adult brain regulates behavior” by D. Dulcis, P. Jamshidi, S. Leutgeb, N. C. Spitzer (2015) (0)
- Postsynaptic receptors regulate presynaptic transmitter stability through trans-synaptic bridges (2023) (0)
- Contents page + Editorial Board (2004) (0)
- Dynamics of cyclic nucleotide signaling in neurons (2015) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Compartmentalized calcium dynamics in a C. elegans interneuron encode head movement. (2012) (0)
- Book Review:The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology. Irwin B. Levitan, Leonard K. Kaczmarek (1993) (0)
- Nicholas C. Spitzer (2022) (0)
- Neurotransmitter Switching: A New Form of Brain Plasticity (2020) (0)
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