Daniel Tranchina

TL;DR: A kinetic model in which light produces a Ca2+-mediated decrease in PDE 6 decay rate, with the novel feature that both spontaneously activated and light-activated PDE6 are modulated, can successfully account for changes in sensitivity and response waveform in background light.

TL;DR: Rod–cone differences in the rates of exocytosis are a major factor in producing faster cone‐driven responses in second‐order retinal neurones, and release kinetics shape the EPSC.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, global analysis of gene expression in response to C, N, L, and O revealed that the number of genes controlled by a signal is proportional to the magnitude of the gene expression changes elicited by the signal, which prompted the existence of a "code" of signal integration.

TL;DR: The result implies that the effective sigma e may be larger than sigma a for neuronally generated currents in the turtle cerebellum because the space constant for Purkinje cells is several times greater than that for the ependymal glia and consequently Purkinja cell-generated currents travel over a long distance relative to the space constants of glial cells.

TL;DR: A pair of coupled partial differential–integral equations describing the evolution of PDFs for neurons in non-refractory and refractory pools are formulated and an operator-splitting method is used to reduce computation time.