RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Alan Fine, Professor

1. Emptage, N., T.V.P. Bliss, A. Fine (1999) Single synaptic events NMDA receptor-mediated release of calcium from internal stores in hippocampal dendritic spines. Neuron 22: 115-124.
2. Abdel-Majid, R.M., W.L. Leong, L.C. Schalkwyk. D.S. Smallman, S.T. Wong, D.R. Stom, M.J. Dobson, A. Fine, D.L. Guernsey, P.E. Newmann. (1998) The barrelless phenotype is due to adenylyl cyclase type I activity. Nature Genetics 19: 289-291.
3. Chalmers-Redman, R., T. Priestley, J.A. Kemp, A. Fine (1997) In vitro propagation and inducible differentiation of human fetal central nervous system progenitor cells. Neuroscience 76: 1121-1128.
4. Zhuo, L., B. Sun, C.-L. Zhang, A. Fine, S.Y. Chiu, A. Messing (1997) Live astrocytes visualized by green fluorescent protein (GFP) in transgenic mice. Devel. Biolo. 187: 36-42.
5. Maclean, C.J., H.F. Baker, A. Fine, R.M. Ridley (1997) Nerve growth factor receptor immunoreactive cells within the forebrain of the common marmoset. Brain Res. Bull. 43, 197-208.
6. Fine, A., C. Hoyle, C.J. Maclean, T.L. LeVatte, H.F. Baker, R.M. Ridley (1997) Learning impairments following injection of a selective cholinercic immunotoxin, ME20.4 IgG-saporin, into the basal nucleus of Meynert in monkeys. Neuroscience 81: 331-343.

Reviews, commentary and book chapters

1. Fine, A. Confocal Microscopy: Principles and Practice. In: Imaging: A Laboratory Manual. R. Yuste, F. Lanni, and A. Konnerth (eds.). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. (2000) 11.1-11.11.
2. Fine, A. and R.O. Holness. Fetal tissue transplantation in movement disorders. In: Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. P.L. Gildenberg and R.R. Tasker (eds.). McGraw-Hill (1998), 1123-1130.
3. Hosokawa, T., M. Ohta, A. Koyama, K. Satio, and A. Fine. Optical monitoring of living brain tissue. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimantal Research 22 (1998), 60-66.
4. Samuels, D.C., H.G.E. Hentschel and A. Fine. Parallel simulations of neuron growth. Computers in Physics 10 (1996) 129-134.

Recent Abstracts

1. Rusakov, D.A. and A. Fine. Synaptically evoked transient of extracellular calcium: a new signalling mechanism? Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.25 (1999) 1311.
2. Emptage, N.J., T.V.P. Bliss, and A. Fine. Confocal imaging of calcium transients in axonal boutons of hippocampal pyramidal cells. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 25 (1999) 1255.
3. Stewart, MG., R. Fabian-Fine, and A. Fine. Distribution of AMPA receptor-like immunoreactivity at CA3 pyramidal cells in organotypic tissue slices of rat hippocampus. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 25 (1999) 734.
4. Rosenblum, K., M. Futter, C. Curtis, A. Fine, E.C. Hulme, and T.V.P. Bliss. Cholinergic modulation of NMDA receptor tyrosine phosphorylation and MAP kinase activation. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 24 (1998) 111.
5. Emptage, N.J., T.V.P. Bliss, and A. Fine. Confocal imaging of synaptic calcium transients in dendritic spines of organotypic hippocampal cultures. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 23 (1997) 370.
6. Hosokawa, T., M. Ohta, A. Koyama, K. Saito, and A. Fine. High-speed imagingof hippocampal long-term potentiation. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 23 (1997) 369.
7. Zhuo, L., B. Sun, C.L. Zhang, A. Fine, S.Y. Chiu, and A. Messing. Live astrocytes visualized by green fluorescent protein in transgenic mice. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 23 (1997) 73.

External Lectures

1. Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1999.
2. Babraham Calcium Conference, Babraham, UK, 1999.
3. Department of Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, UK, 1999.
4. Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Cambridge, UK, 1999.
5. International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, 1999.
6. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany, 1998.
7. Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Windlesham, Ascot, UK, 1998.
8. Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 1998.
9. Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, 1998.
10. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, 1998.
11. Physiological Institute, University of bergen, Bergen, Norway, 1998.

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