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Stephen J. Smith

Researcher at Allen Institute for Brain Science

Publications -  127
Citations -  22271

Stephen J. Smith is an academic researcher from Allen Institute for Brain Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Postsynaptic potential & Synapse. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 118 publications receiving 20466 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen J. Smith include Stanford University & Yale University.

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A real-time analysis of growth cone-target cell interactions during the formation of stable contacts between hippocampal neurons in culture.

TL;DR: High magnification, real-time record of stable contact formation in cultured cells from the hippocampal CA1 area in the newborn rat indicates that filopodia are the means used by cells to interact at stages prior to and during contact formation.
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Stability and plasticity of developing synapses in hippocampal neuronal cultures.

TL;DR: FM 1–43 fluorescence imaging observations provide new information on the stability of developing presynaptic function and suggest that NMDA receptor activation may regulate the Stability of developing synapses.
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Live optical imaging of nervous system development

TL;DR: Technological background is provided and examples of how new methods, including confocal and two-photon microscopy, GFP-based markers, and functional indicators, are being applied to provide fresh insight into long-standing questions of neural development are presented.
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Endothelin induces a sustained rise in intracellular calcium in hippocampal astrocytes.

TL;DR: The endothelins, a newly described family of vasoactive peptides, have a profound effect on intracellular calcium levels of cultured rat hippocampal astrocytes that resembles the effect of endothelin (ET) on vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in many respects.