Epernicus: Nicholas C Spitzer

Nicholas C Spitzer

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Neurobiology

University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
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Nicholas Spitzer's Publications (64)

A Rosetta stone for analysis of human membrane protein function.
Spitzer NC

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Aug 5;105(31):10641-2
Embryonically expressed GABA and glutamate drive electrical activity regulating neurotransmitter specification.
Root CM, Velázquez-Ulloa NA, Monsalve GC, Minakova E, Spitzer NC

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2008 Apr 30;28(18):4777-84
Implications of activity-dependent neurotransmitter-receptor matching.
Spitzer NC, Borodinsky LN

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 2008 Apr 12;363(1495):1393-9
Calcium: first messenger.
Spitzer NC

Nature neuroscience. 2008 Mar;11(3):243-4
Neurite outgrowth and in vivo sensory innervation mediated by a Ca(V)2.2-laminin beta 2 stop signal.
Sann SB, Xu L, Nishimune H, Sanes JR, Spitzer NC

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2008 Mar 5;28(10):2366-74
Activity-dependent neurotransmitter-receptor matching at the neuromuscular junction.
Borodinsky LN, Spitzer NC

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Jan 2;104(1):335-40
Electrical activity in early neuronal development.
Spitzer NC

Nature. 2006 Dec 7;444(7120):707-12
Second messenger pas de deux: the coordinated dance between calcium and cAMP.
Borodinsky LN, Spitzer NC

Science's STKE : signal transduction knowledge environment. 2006 May 23;2006(336):pe22
Local calcium transients contribute to disappearance of pFAK, focal complex removal and deadhesion of neuronal growth cones and fibroblasts.
Conklin MW, Lin MS, Spitzer NC

Developmental biology. 2005 Nov 1;287(1):201-12
Homeostatic activity-dependent paradigm for neurotransmitter specification.
Spitzer NC, Borodinsky LN, Root CM

Cell calcium. 2005 May;37(5):417-23
Nature and nurture in brain development.
Ben-Ari Y, Spitzer NC

Trends in neurosciences. 2004 Jul;27(7):361
Orchestrating neuronal differentiation: patterns of Ca2+ spikes specify transmitter choice.
Spitzer NC, Root CM, Borodinsky LN

Trends in neurosciences. 2004 Jul;27(7):415-21
Activity-dependent homeostatic specification of transmitter expression in embryonic neurons.
Borodinsky LN, Root CM, Cronin JA, Sann SB, Gu X, Spitzer NC

Nature. 2004 Jun 3;429(6991):523-30
Coincidence detection enhances appropriate wiring of the nervous system.
Spitzer NC

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2004 Apr 13;101(15):5311-2
Calcium transients regulate patterned actin assembly during myofibrillogenesis.
Li H, Cook JD, Terry M, Spitzer NC, Ferrari MB

Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 2004 Feb;229(2):231-42
Dynamic interactions of cyclic AMP transients and spontaneous Ca(2+) spikes.
Gorbunova YV, Spitzer NC

Nature. 2002 Jul 4;418(6893):93-6
Outside and in: development of neuronal excitability.
Spitzer NC, Kingston PA, Manning TJ, Conklin MW

Current opinion in neurobiology. 2002 Jun;12(3):315-23
Adaptation in the chemotactic guidance of nerve growth cones.
Ming GL, Wong ST, Henley J, Yuan XB, Song HJ, Spitzer NC, Poo MM

Nature. 2002 May 23;417(6887):411-8
Activity-dependent neuronal differentiation prior to synapse formation: the functions of calcium transients.
Spitzer NC

Journal of physiology, Paris. 2002 Jan-Mar;96(1-2):73-80
Filopodial calcium transients promote substrate-dependent growth cone turning.
Gomez TM, Robles E, Poo M, Spitzer NC

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2001 Mar 9;291(5510):1983-7
Differentiation of electrical excitability in motoneurons.
Spitzer NC, Vincent A, Lautermilch NJ

Brain research bulletin. 2000 Nov 15;53(5):547-52
Specific frequencies of spontaneous Ca2+ transients upregulate GAD 67 transcripts in embryonic spinal neurons.
Watt SD, Gu X, Smith RD, Spitzer NC

Molecular and cellular neurosciences. 2000 Oct;16(4):376-87
Coding of neuronal differentiation by calcium transients.
Spitzer NC, Lautermilch NJ, Smith RD, Gomez TM

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 2000 Sep;22(9):811-7
Antisense suppression of potassium channel expression demonstrates its role in maturation of the action potential.
Vincent A, Lautermilch NJ, Spitzer NC

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2000 Aug 15;20(16):6087-94
Regulation of growth cone behavior by calcium: new dynamics to earlier perspectives.
Gomez TM, Spitzer NC

Journal of neurobiology. 2000 Aug;44(2):174-83

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Nicholas C Spitzer

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Nicholas Spitzer's Publications (64)