Heidelberger Lab Publications

1980-1989

Mann, W.J., Mendonca-Dias, M.H., Lauterbur, P.C., Klimek, R., Bernardo, M.L., Chumas, J., Heidelberger, R., Acuff, V., and Taylor, A.  (1984).  Preliminary In Vitro studies of NMR Spin-lattic relaxation times (T1) and 3-D imaging in gynecologic oncology. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 148:91-95.


1990-1999

Heidelberger, R., and Matthews, G.  (1991).  Inhibition of calcium influx and calcium current by GABA in single synaptic terminals.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 88:7135-7139.

Heidelberger, R., and Matthews, G.  (1992).  Calcium influx and calcium current in single synaptic terminals of goldfish retinal bipolar neurons.  Journal of Physiology  447:235-256.

Matthews, G., Ayoub, G., and Heidelberger, R.  (1994).  Presynaptic Inhibition by GABA is Mediated Via Two Distinct GABA Receptors with Novel Pharmacology. Journal of Neuroscience 14(3): 1079-1090.

Heidelberger, R., and Matthews, G.  (1994).  Dopamine Enhances Ca2+ Responses in Synaptic Terminals of Retinal Bipolar Neurons.  NeuroReport 5:729-732.

Heidelberger, R., Heinemann, C., Neher, E., and Matthews, G.  (1994).  Calcium Dependence of the Rate of Exocytosis in a Synaptic Terminal. Nature 371:513-515.

Heidelberger, R.  (1995).  Calcium and the Rate of Neurotransmitter Exocytosis.  J. of NIH Research, 7(10):51-52.

Haller, M., Heinemann, C., Chow, R.H., Heidelberger, R., and E. Neher.  (1998).  Comparison of secretory responses as measured by membrane capacitance and by amperometry.  Biophysical Journal  74:2100-2113.

Heidelberger, R.  (1998).  ATP and the Late Steps in Calcium-Dependent Exocytosis at a Ribbon Synapse.  Journal of General Physiology 111:225-241.


2000-2009

Heidelberger, R.  (2000).  Bipolar Cells in the Spotlight:  Cause for Excitement.  Neuron 25:2‑4.

Heidelberger, R.  (2001).  ATP is Required at an Early Step in Compensatory Endocytosis in Synaptic Terminals.  Journal of Neuroscience 21(17):6367-6474.

Heidelberger, R.  (2001).  Electrophysiological Approaches to the Study of Neuronal Exocytosis and Synaptic Vesicle Dynamics.  Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology.  143:1-80.

Heidelberger, R., Sterling P., and Matthews, G.  (2002).  Roles of ATP in synaptic vesicle pool depletion and replenishment.  Journal of Neurophysiology 88:97-106.

Heidelberger, R., Zhou, Z-Y., and Matthews, G.  (2002).  Multiple Components Of Membrane Retrieval in Synaptic Terminals Revealed by Changes in Hydrostatic Pressure.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 88(5):2509-17.

Heidelberger, R., Wang, M.M., and Sherry, D.M.  (2003).  Differential Distribution of Synaptotagmin Immunoreactivity Among Synapses in the Goldfish, Salamader and Mouse Retina.  Visual Neuroscience, 20(1):37-49.

Thoreson WB, Rabl K, Townes-Anderson E, Heidelberger R.  (2004).  A highly Ca2+-sensitive pool of vesicles contributes to linearity at the rod photoreceptor ribbon synapse.  Neuron 42(4):595-605.  (This article was featured in Nature 429:620, 2004).

Heidelberger, R. and Matthews, G. (2004).  Vesicle Priming and Depriming:  A SNAP decision. Neuron 41:311-313.

Sherry DM, and Heidelberger R.  (2005).  Distribution of proteins associated with synaptic vesicle endocytosis in the mouse and goldfish retina.  Journal of Comparative Neurology, 484(4):440-457.

Heidelberger, R., Thoreson W.B., and Witkovsky, P.  (2005).  Synaptic Transmission at Retinal Ribbon Synapses.  Progress in Retinal Eye Research 24(6):682-720.

Burr GS, Mitchell CK, Keflemariam YJ, Heidelberger R and O’Brien J.  (2005).  Calcium-dependent binding of calmodulin to neuronal gap junction proteins.  Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 335:1191-1198.

Heidelberger, R. and von Gersdorff, H.  (2005). Illuminating the calcium sensor for exocytosis in a flash.  Nature Neuroscience 8(4):402-404.

Zhou ZY, Wan QF, Thakur P and Heidelberger R.  (2006).  Capacitance measurements in the mouse rod bipolar cell identify a pool of releasable synaptic vesicles. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96(5):2539-2548.

Heidelberger, R., and Innocenti, B.  (2006).  Neurotransmitter release at a tonic synapse:  how ordinary mechanisms accomplish an extraordinary task.  Cell Science Reviews 3(2):151-183.

Heidelberger, R. (2007).  Mechanisms of tonic, graded release: lessons from the vertebrate photoreceptor.  Journal of Physiology 585:663-667.

Heidelberger, R.  (2007).  Neuroscience: sensors and synchronicity.  Nature 450(7170):623-625.

Innocenti, B and Heidelberger, R.  (2008).  Mechanisms contributing to tonic release at the cone photoreceptor ribbon synapse.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 99(1):25-36.

Wan, QF, Vila, A, Zhou ZY, Heidelberger R.  (2008).  Synaptic vesicle dynamics in mouse rod bipolar cells.  Visual Neuroscience, 25(4):523-533.

Melicoff E, Sansores-Garcia L, Gomez A, Moreira DC, Datta P, Thakur P, Siddiqi T, Murthy J, Dickey BF, Heidelberger R, and Adachi R.  (2009).  Synaptotagmin-2 controls regulated exocytosis but not other secretory responses of mast cells.  Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284(29):19445-51.


2010-2014

Curtis L*, Datta P*, Liu X, Bogdanova N, Heidelberger R and Janz R.  (2010)
Syntaxin 3B is essential for the exocytosis of synaptic vesicles in ribbon synapses of the retina. Neuroscience 166(3):832-41.  *both authors contributed equally

Duncan G, Rabl K, Gemp I, Heidelberger R, and Thoreson WB.  (2010)  Quantitative modeling of synaptic release at the photoreceptor synapse.  Biophysical Journal 98(10):2102-2110.

Wan QF,  Zhou ZY,  Thakur P,  Vila A, Sherry D, Janz R, and Heidelberger R (2010).  SV2B regulates intracellular Ca2+ and synaptic vesicle dynamics.  Neuron, 66:884-895.

Frazão R, McMahon DG, Schunack W, Datta P, Heidelberger R, Marshak  DW.  (2011). Histamine effects on dopaminergic cells in mouse retina. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 52:3083-3088.

Wan QF and Heidelberger R.  Synaptic release at mammalian bipolar cell terminals.  (2011).  Visual Neuroscience, 28(1):109-19.

Wan QF,  Nixon E, Heidelberger R.  (2012).  Regulation of presynaptic calcium in a mammalian synaptic terminal.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 108(11):3059-3067.  “Editor’s Pick”

Liu X, Heidelberger R, and Janz R.  Phosphorylation of syntaxin 3B by CamKII regulates the formation of a t-SNARE complex.  (2014).  Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 60:553-562.

Heidelberger, R., Shouval, H., Zucker R.S., and Byrne JH.  (2014).  Synaptic Plasticity.  In:  From Molecules to Networks; an introduction to cellular and molecular neuroscience, 3rd Edition.  Editors:  J.H. Byrne, R. Heidelberger, and M.N. Waxham.  Elsevier.

Byrne, J.H., Heidelberger, R., and Waxham, M.N., Editors.  (2014).  From Molecules to Networks; an introduction to cellular and molecular neuroscience, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.