Selected Journal Abstracts and Publications

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Trujillo-Provencio, C., T. Powers, D.R. Sultemeier, and E.E. Serrano (2008). RNA isolation from Xenopus inner ear sensory endorgans for transcriptional profiling and molecular cloning. Methods in Molecular Biology: Auditory and Vestibular Research, Ed. B. Sokolowski, Humana Press, Inc., in press.

Quick, Q.A. and E.E. Serrano (2007) Cell proliferation during the early compartmentalization of the Xenopus laevis inner ear. International Journal of Developmental Biology 51: 201-210. (PubMed)

Powers, T., C. Trujillo-Provencio, C. Whittaker, and E.E. Serrano (2007) Gene expression profiling of Xenopus organs yields insight into the Xenopus inner ear transcriptome. ARO. Abstr. 30:741.

Sultemeier, D.R., C. Provencio-Trujillo, and E. E. Serrano (2007) Cloning and characterization of Xenopus inner ear calcium-activated potassium channel a- and ß- subunits. ARO. Abstr. 30:740.

Urquidi, L.J., M. Salt, D. J. Kane, K. A. Peterson, A. B. Vakhtin, and E. E. Serrano (2007) Imaging inner ear organogenesis in Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis with Fourier domain optical coherence tomography. ARO. Abstr. 30:40.

Knight V. B and and E. E. Serrano (2006) Tissue and species differences in the application of quantum dots as probes for biomolecular targets in the inner ear and kidney. IEEE Transactions in Nanobioscience 5:251-262. (PubMed, PDF)

Knight V. B and and E. E. Serrano (2006) The accumulation of nontargeted quantum dots in cultured human embryonic kidney cells. Proceedings of SPIE, 60960Y:1-11. (SPIE)

Morales M.M., C.Trujillo-Provencio, and E.E. Serrano (2006) Synaptic ribbon formation during Xenopus inner ear organogenesis. Soc. Dev. Biol. Abstr. 65:376. (ScienceDirect)

Quick, Q.A. and E.E. Serrano (2005) Inner ear formation during the early larval development of Xenopus laevis. Developmental Dynamics 234:791-801. (PubMed, PDF)

Serrano, E.E. and Knight V. B. (2005) Multiphoton imaging of quantum dot bioconjugates in cultured cells following Nd:YLF laser excitation. Proceedings of SPIE 5705: 225-234. (SPIE)

Sultemeier, DR, VB Knight, SJ Manuelito, M. Hopkins, and E.E. Serrano. (2005) Heterologous and homologous expression systems for functional analysis of Xenopus inner ear genes. ARO. Abstr. 28:28.

Sultemeier, DR, Knight VB, and E.E. Serrano. (2005) Transient transfection of Xenopus primary neuron-muscle cocultures and A6 cells for gene expression studies. Neurosci Abstr 31: 229.1.

Luna, A., H. Khawaja, U. Brown Glaberman, D. Jefferson, Q.A. Quick, D. Sultemeier, A. Begay, M. Morales, R. Marquez, J. Lucitti, N. Theye, M. Schwartz, and E.E. Serrano (2003) Development of Xenopus Larvae under Chronic Acceleration (Hypergravity) Conditions. ARO. Abstr. 26:892.

Serrano, E.E., Trujillo-Provencio, C., Sultemeier, D, Bullock, W. M., and Quick QA (2001) Identification of genes expressed in the Xenopus inner ear. Cellular and Molecular Biology 47: 1229-1239. (PubMed)

Varela-Ramirez, A, Trujillo-Provencio, C, and E.E. Serrano (1998) Detection of transcripts for delayed rectifier potassium channels in the Xenopus laevis inner ear. Hearing Research 119: 125-134. (PubMed)

Lopez-Anaya, V.L., Lopez-Maldonado, D., and E.E. Serrano. (1997) Development of the Xenopus laevis eighth cranial nerve: Increase in number and area of axons of the saccular and papillar branches. Journal of Morphology 234:263-276. (PubMed, PDF)

Diaz de Lodron, ME, Varela-Ramirez, A.,and E.E. Serrano. (1995) Quantity, bundle types and distribution of hair cells in the sacculus of Xenopus laevis during development. Hearing Research 91: 33-42. (PubMed)

Serrano, E.E. and Schimke, R.T. (1990) Flow cytometric analysis of mammalian glial cultures treated with methotrexate. Glia 3:539-549. (PubMed)

Serrano, E.E. and Zeiger, E. (1989) Sensory transduction and electrical signalling in guard cells. Plant Physiology 91:795-799. (PubMed, PDF)

Serrano, E.E.. and Getting, P.A. (1989) Diversity of the transient outward potassium current in somata of identified molluscan neurons. Journal of Neuroscience 9:4021-4032. (PubMed)

Serrano, E.E., Zeiger, E., and Hagiwara S. (1988) Red light stimulates an electrogenic proton pump in Vicia guard cell protoplasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 85:436-440. (PubMed)

Serrano, E.E., Kunis, D.M., and Ransom, B.R. (1988) Effects of chronic phenobarbital exposure on cultured mouse spinal cord neurons. Annals of Neurology 24:429-438. (PubMedk)