Recent biophysics publications (2000- )

 

 

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.