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Kira E. Poskanzer

Researcher at University of California, San Francisco

Publications -  30
Citations -  2955

Kira E. Poskanzer is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Synaptic vesicle & Receptor. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 26 publications receiving 1924 citations. Previous affiliations of Kira E. Poskanzer include Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai & Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

Carole Escartin, +88 more
- 15 Feb 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors point out the shortcomings of binary divisions of reactive astrocytes into good-vs-bad, neurotoxic vs-neuroprotective or A1-vs.A2.
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Astrocytes regulate cortical state switching in vivo

TL;DR: It is found that astrocytes can indeed trigger the low-frequency state of a cortical circuit by altering extracellular glutamate, and therefore play a causal role in the control of cortical synchronizations.
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Synaptotagmin I is necessary for compensatory synaptic vesicle endocytosis in vivo

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that Syt I is necessary for the endocytosis of synaptic vesicles that have undergone exocytotic treatment using a functional SyT I protein.
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Two-photon photostimulation and imaging of neural circuits.

TL;DR: An optical method to stimulate individual neurons in brain slices in any arbitrary spatiotemporal pattern using two-photon uncaging of MNI-glutamate with beam multiplexing is introduced, which has single-cell and three-dimensional precision.
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Dap160/intersectin scaffolds the periactive zone to achieve high-fidelity endocytosis and normal synaptic growth.

TL;DR: A model in which Dap160 scaffolds both endocytic machinery and essential synaptic signaling systems to the periactive zone to coordinately control structural and functional synapse development is presented.