Search Results - "Nasi, Enrico"
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Influence of spatially segregated IP₃-producing pathways on spike generation and transmitter release in Purkinje cell axons
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-05-2020)“…It has been known for a long time that inositol-trisphosphate (IP₃) receptors are present in the axon of certain types of mammalian neurons, but their…”
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Modulation of Gq/PLC-Mediated Signaling by Acute Lithium Exposure
Published in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience (15-02-2022)“…Although lithium has long been one of the most widely used pharmacological agents in psychiatry, its mechanisms of action at the cellular and molecular levels…”
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Light control of G protein signaling pathways by a novel photopigment
Published in PloS one (01-10-2018)“…Channelopsins and photo-regulated ion channels make it possible to use light to control electrical activity of cells. This powerful approach has lead to a…”
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Calcium activates the light-dependent conductance in melanopsin-expressing photoreceptors of amphioxus
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-06-2015)“…Significance âCircadianâ photoreceptors of the mammalian retina use melanopsin, a photopigment that resembles invertebrate opsins and has widespread…”
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Light-transduction in melanopsin-expressing photoreceptors of Amphioxus
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-06-2009)“…Spatial vision in different organisms is mediated by 2 classes of photoreceptors: microvillar and ciliary. Recently, additional photosensitive cells implicated…”
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Dissecting the determinants of light sensitivity in amphioxus microvillar photoreceptors: possible evolutionary implications for melanopsin signaling
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (12-12-2012)“…Melanopsin, a photopigment related to the rhodopsin of microvillar photoreceptors of invertebrates, evolved in vertebrates to subserve nonvisual light-sensing…”
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Melanopsin-expressing amphioxus photoreceptors transduce light via a phospholipase C signaling cascade
Published in PloS one (03-01-2012)“…Melanopsin, the receptor molecule that underlies light sensitivity in mammalian 'circadian' receptors, is homologous to invertebrate rhodopsins and has been…”
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Melanopsin-mediated light-sensing in amphioxus: A glimpse of the microvillar photoreceptor lineage within the deuterostomia
Published in Communicative & integrative biology (01-09-2009)“…The two fundamental lineages of photoreceptor cells, microvillar and ciliary, were long thought to be a prerogative of invertebrate and vertebrate organisms,…”
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A Direct Signaling Role for Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Bisphosphate (PIP2) in the Visual Excitation Process of Microvillar Receptors
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (29-04-2005)“…In microvillar photoreceptors the pivotal role of phospholipase C in light transduction is undisputed, but previous attempts to account for the photoresponse…”
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Role of protein kinase C in light adaptation of molluscan microvillar photoreceptors
Published in The Journal of physiology (01-09-2002)“…The mechanisms by which Ca 2+ regulates light adaptation in microvillar photoreceptors remain poorly understood. Protein kinase C (PKC) is a likely candidate,…”
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Modulation of G q /PLC-Mediated Signaling by Acute Lithium Exposure
Published in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience (2022)“…Although lithium has long been one of the most widely used pharmacological agents in psychiatry, its mechanisms of action at the cellular and molecular levels…”
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Light Transduction in Invertebrate Hyperpolarizing Photoreceptors: Possible Involvement of a Go-Regulated Guanylate Cyclase
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (15-07-2000)“…The hyperpolarizing receptor potential of scallop ciliary photoreceptors is attributable to light-induced opening of K(+)-selective channels. Having previously…”
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Influence of spatially segregated IP 3 -producing pathways on spike generation and transmitter release in Purkinje cell axons
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-05-2020)“…It has been known for a long time that inositol-trisphosphate (IP ) receptors are present in the axon of certain types of mammalian neurons, but their…”
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Molecular and functional identification of a novel photopigment in Pecten ciliary photoreceptors
Published in The Journal of general physiology (05-03-2018)“…The two basic animal photoreceptor types, ciliary and microvillar, use different light-transduction schemes: their photopigments couple to G versus G proteins,…”
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Identification of a Pseudotetrameric K+-Selective CNG Channel in Amphioxus
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Descriptive sensory analysis of Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena DOP and Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Reggio Emilia DOP
Published in Journal of the science of food and agriculture (01-12-2013)“…BACKGROUND Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale (ABT) is a typical Italian vinegar available in two different forms: Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena DOP (ABTM)…”
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Arrestin in ciliary invertebrate photoreceptors: molecular identification and functional analysis in vivo
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (02-02-2011)“…Arrestin was identified in ciliary photoreceptors of Pecten irradians, and its role in terminating the light response was established electrophysiologically…”
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Prolonged calcium influx after termination of light-induced calcium release in invertebrate photoreceptors
Published in The Journal of general physiology (01-09-2009)“…In microvillar photoreceptors, light stimulates the phospholipase C cascade and triggers an elevation of cytosolic Ca2+ that is essential for the regulation of…”
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The light-sensitive conductance of melanopsin-expressing Joseph and Hesse cells in amphioxus
Published in The Journal of general physiology (01-01-2012)“…Two types of microvillar photoreceptors in the neural tube of amphioxus, an early chordate, sense light via melanopsin, the same photopigment as in "circadian"…”
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The light-sensitive conductance of melanopsin-expressing Joseph and Hesse cells in amphioxus
Published in The Journal of general physiology (01-01-2011)“…Two types of microvillar photoreceptors in the neural tube of amphioxus, an early chordate, sense light via melanopsin, the same photopigment as in "circadian"…”
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