Books
Cardiac Mechanotransduction (M. Weckström and P. Tavi, eds.). Landes Biosciences and
Springer Science+Business Media, 2007, pp
1-147. <publisher's
page>
Reviews
Tavi P, Laine M, Weckstrom M, Ruskoaho H.
(2001) Cardiac mechanotransduction: From sensing to
disease and treatment. Trends Pharmacol
Sci 22: 254-260. <ask for
pdf>
Weckström, M and Tavi
P. (2006) The mechanosensory heart: A multidisciplinary approach. In: Cardiac
mechanotransduction (Weckström M and Tavi P, eds.), Landes Biosciences and
Springer, Austin and New York, pp. 1-7. <publisher's page>
Original
papers
Uusitalo RO & Weckström M. (2000) Dark
recovery in a graded potential synapse: the role of potentiation
and ionic mechanisms. J. Neurophysiol 83:2103-12. <ask for
pdf>
Tavi P, Weckström M,
Ruskoaho H (2000) cAMP- and cGMP-independent
stretch-induced changes in the contraction of rat atrium. Pfluegers
Arch 441:65-68. <ask for
pdf>
Cronin
T.W., Järvilehto M, Weckström M and Lall, A.B. (2000) Tuning of photoreceptor spectral
sensitivity in twilight-active and night-active firefly species (Coleoptera:Lampyridae). J
Comp Physiol A 186: 1-12. <ask for
pdf>
Han
C, Tavi P and Weckström M. (2002) Modulation of action potential by [Ca2+]i in modelled rat atrial and guinea-pig ventricular myocytes.
Am J Physiol 282: H1047-H1054.
<ask for
pdf>
Han
C, Tavi P and Weckström M. (2002) Role of the Na+-Ca2+
exchanger as an alternative trigger in CICR in mammalian cardiac myocytes. Biophys J
82:1483-96. <ask for
pdf>
Niven J, Vähäsöyrinki
M, Kauranen M, Hardie RC, Juusola M & Weckström M. (2003) The contribution of Shaker potassium channels to the
information capacity in Drosophila photoreceptors. Nature 421:630-634.<ask for
pdf>
Parikka V, Rautiala T, Weckström M, Dahllund
J, Härkönen P, Väänänen HK and Lehenkari
P (2003) The effects of tamoxifen and toremifen on bone cells involve changes in plasma membrane
ion conductance. J Bone Min Res 18: 473-481. <ask for
pdf>
Tavi P, Allen DG,
Niemela P, Vuolteenaho O, Weckstrom M, Westerblad H.
(2003) Calmodulin kinase
modulates Ca2+ release in mouse skeletal muscle. J Physiol (Lond) 551: 5-12. <ask
for pfd>
Niven JE, Vähäsöyrinki
M, Juusola M (2003) Shaker K+-channels are
predicted to reduce the metabolic cost of neural information in Drosophila
photoreceptors. Proc R Soc Lond Ser B 270:
S58-S61 Suppl. 1.
Voutilainen-Myllylä S, Weckström
M & Tavi P. (2003) Chelerythrine and bisindolyl-maleimide I prolong cardiac action potentials by
protein kinase C-independent mechanism. Eur J Pharmacol 466:41-51.
Niven JE, Vähäsöyrinki
M, Juusola M, French AS. (2004) Interactions between light-induced currents, voltage-gated
currents, and input signal properties in Drosophila photoreceptors.
J Neurophysiol 91: 2696-2706.
Tavi P, Pikkarainen S, Ronkainen J, Niemela P, Ilves
M, Weckstrom M, Vuolteenaho O, Bruton J, Westerblad H, Ruskoaho H. (2004). Pacing-induced calcineurin activation controls cardiac Ca2+
signalling and gene expression. J Physiol. 554:309-20. <ask for
pfd>
Kauranen M &
Weckström M (2004) K+ Channels and Their Modulation by 5-HT in
Drosophila Photoreceptors: A Modelling Study. Ann Biomed Eng 32:1580-1595 <ask for pfd>
Vähäsöyrinki M, J. E.
Niven, R. C. Hardie, M. Weckström & M.
Juusola. (2006) Robustness of contrast coding in Drosophila
photoreceptors in the absence of slow delayed rectifier K+ channels.
J Neurosci. 26:2652-60. <ask for pfd>
Heimonen K, Salmela I,
Kontiokari P, Weckström M. (2006) Large
functional variability in cockroach photoreceptors: An optimization to low
light levels? J. Neurosci 26:13454-13462. <ask for
pdf>
Grewe J, Weckström M, Egelhaaf M and Warzecha A-K. (2007) Information and Discriminability as Measures of Reliability of Sensory Coding PLoS ONE 2(12): e1328:1-8. <ask for pdf>
Yani Krause, Stephan
Krause, Jiehiong Huang,Che-Hsiung Liu,Roger C. Hardie, Matti Weckström (2008).
Light-dependent modulation of Shab channels via phosphoinositide depletion in Drosophila photoreceptors. Neuron 59,
596–607. <ask for
pdf>
Papers
submitted or in revision
Matti Weckström, and Laughlin SB. Extracellular potentials
modify the transfer of information at photoreceptor output synapses in the blowfly compound eye, in revision.
Koivumäki J, Korhonen T,
Takalo J, Weckström M and Tavi P. Integrative Analysis of Cardiac
Excitation-Contraction Coupling of Genetically Engineered Mice. Submitted.
last modified 15 March, 2008 / m.w.