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Indira Raman's Selected Publications:

Aman T.K., Raman I.M. (2007). Subunit dependence of Na channel slow inactivation and open channel block in cerebellar neurons. Biophysical Journal. 92(6):1938-51. [Full Text].

Pugh J.R., Raman I.M. (2006). Potentiation of mossy fiber EPSCs in the cerebellar nuclei by NMDA receptor activation followed by postinhibitory rebound current. Neuron. Jul 6;51(1):113-23 [Full Text].

Levin S.I., Khaliq Z.M., Aman T.K., Grieco T.M., Kearney J.A., Raman I.M., Meisler M.H. (2006). Impaired motor function in mice with cell-specific knockout of sodium channel Scn8a (NaV1.6) in cerebellar purkinje neurons and granule cells. Journal of Neurophysiology 96(2):785-93. [Full Text].

Khaliq Z.M., Raman I.M. (2006). Relative contributions of axonal and somatic Na channels to action potential initiation in cerebellar Purkinje neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(7):1935-44. [Full Text].

Grieco, T.M., Malhotra, J.D., Chen, C., Isom, L.L., and Raman, I.M. (2005). Open-channel block by the cytoplasmic tail of sodium channel beta 4 as a mechanism for resurgent sodium current. Neuron. 45: 233-244. [Full Text].

Khaliq, Z.M. and Raman, I.M. (2005). Axonal propagation of simple and complex spikes in cerebellar Purkinje neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(2): 454-63. [Full Text].

Pugh, J.R. and Raman, I.M. (2005). GABAA receptor kinetics in the cerebellar nuclei: Evidence for detection of transmitter from distant release sites. Biophysical Journal. 88 (3): 1740-54. [Full Text].

Telgkamp, P., Padgett, D.E., Ledoux, V.A., Woolley, C.S., Raman, I.M. (2004). Maintenance of high-frequency transmission at Purkinje to cerebellar nuclear synapses by spillover from boutons with multiple release sites. Neuron. 41(1): 113-26.[Full Text].

Grieco, Tina M. and Indira M. Raman, 2004. Production of resurgent current in NaV1.6-null Purkinje neurons by slowing sodium channel inactivation with ß-Pompilidotoxin. The Journal of Neuroscience. 24(1): 35-42. [Full Text]

Afshari, Fatemeh S., Krzysztof Ptak, Zayd M. Khaliq, Tina M. Grieco, N. Traverse Slater, Donald R. McCrimmon, and Indira M. Raman. (2004). Resurgent Na currents in four classes of neurons of the cerebellum. Journal of Neurophysiology. 92(5): 2831-2843. [Full Text]

Khaliq, Z.M., Gouwens, N.W., Raman, I.M. (2003). The contribution of resurgent sodium current to high-frequency firing in Purkinje neurons: an experimental and modeling study. Journal of Neuroscience. 23(12): 4899-912. [Full Text].

Telgkamp, P., Raman, I.M. (2002). Depression of inhibitory synaptic transmission between Purkinje cells and neurons of the cerebellar nuclei. Journal of Neuroscience. 22(19): 8447-57. [Full Text].

Grieco, Tina M., Fatemeh S. Afshari, and Indira M. Raman, 2002. A role for phosphorylation in the maintenance of resurgent sodium current in cerebellar Purkinje neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience 22(8): 3100-3107. [Full Text]

Raman, Indira M. and Bruce P. Bean, 2001. Inactivation and recovery of sodium currents in cerebellar Purkinje neurons: Evidence for two mechanisms. Biophysical Journal 80: 729-737. [Full Text]

Raman, Indira M., Amy E. Gustafon, and Daniel Padgett, 2000. Ionic currents and spontaneous firing in neurons isolated from the cerebellar nuclei. The Journal of Neuroscience 20(24): 9004-9016. [Full Text]