Alfredo Kirkwood - Recent papers

Seol, GH., Jokubas Ziburkus, J., Huang, SY., Song, L., Kim T., Takamiya, K., Huganir, RL., Lee, HK., A. Kirkwood. (2007) Neuromodulators control the polarity of spike-timing dependent synaptic plasticity. Neuron. (in Press).  

Goel, A., B. Jiang*, L. W. Xu, L. Song, A. Kirkwood, and H.-K. Lee (2006) Cross-modal regulation of synaptic AMPA receptors in primary sensory cortices by visual experience. Nature Neuroscience 9 (8): 1001-1003.

Choi SY, Chang J, Jiang B, Seol GH, Min SS, Han JS, Shin HS, Gallagher M, Kirkwood A. (2005) Multiple receptors coupled to phospholipase C gate long-term depression in visual cortex. J Neurosci. 25:11433-43.

Lee HK, Min SS, Gallagher M, Kirkwood A. (2005) NMDA receptor-independent long-term depression correlates with successful aging in rats. Nat Neurosci. 8:1657-9.

Saura CA, Choi SY, Beglopoulos V, Malkani S, Zhang D, Shankaranarayana Rao BS, Chattarji S, Kelleher RJ 3rd, Kandel ER, Duff K, Kirkwood A, Shen J. (2004). Loss of presenilin function causes impairments of memory and synaptic plasticity followed by age-dependent neurodegeneration. Neuron. 42:23-36.

Morales, B. , Choi, SY.& Kirkwood A. (2002) Dark-rearing alters the development of GABAergic transmission in visual cortex. J. Neurosci. 22, 8084-90. [PDF]

Choi SY, Morales B, Lee H-K & Kirkwood A. (2002). Absence of long-term depression in the visual cortex of glutamic decarboxylase 65 knock-out mice. J. Neurosci 22, 5271-5276. [PDF]