Cherubini Lab Publications:
Recent & Selected publications
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GAT-1 regulates both tonic and phasic GABA(A) receptor-mediated inhibition in the cerebral cortex. J Neurochem. 2008 Feb 4; [Epub ahead of print]
Majid H. Mohajerani, Sudhir Sivakumaran, Paola Zacchi, Pedro Aguilera and Enrico Cherubini. Correlated network activity enhances synaptic efficacy via BDNF and the ERK pathway at immature CA3-CA1 connections in the hippocampus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2007 Aug 7; 104(32):13176-81.
Majid H. Mohajerani and Enrico Cherubini. Role of Giant Depolarizing Potentials in shaping synaptic currents in the developing hippocampus. Critical Reviews in Neurobiology, 2007, 18: 9-19.
Minneci F, Janahmadi M, Migliore M, Dragicevic N, Avossa D, Cherubini E. (2007) Signaling properties of stratum oriens interneurons in the hippocampus of transgenic mice expressing EGFP in a subset of somatostatin-containing cells. Hippocampus 2007;17(7):538-53. Marchionni I, Omrani A, Cherubini E. (2007) In the developing rat hippocampus a tonic GABAA-mediated conductance selectively enhances the glutamatergic drive of principal cells. J Physiol. 581:515-528. Matteo Moretto Zita, Ivan Marchionni, Elisa Bottos, Massimo Righi, Giannino Del Sal, Enrico Cherubini & Paola Zacchi (2007). Post-phosphorylation prolyl-isomerisation of gephyrin represents a mechanism to modulate glycine receptors function. EMBO Journal, 26:1761-1771. Marcelo Rosato-Siri, Antonino Cattaneo & Enrico Cherubini (2006) Nicotine-induced enhancement of synaptic plasticity at CA3-CA1 synapses requires GABAergic interneurons in adult anti NGF mice. J. Physiol. 576, 361-377, 2006 Elisabetta Sola, Simona Capsoni, Marcelo Rosato-Siri, Antonino Cattaneo & Enrico Cherubini (2006) Failure of nicotine-dependent enhancement of synaptic efficacy at Schaffer-collateral CA1 synapses of AD11 anti-NGF transgenic mice. Eur. J. Neurosci. 24, 1252-1264. Victoria F. Safiulina, Ramil Afzalov, Leonard Khiroug, Enrico Cherubini & Rashid Giniatullin (2006) Reactive oxygen species mediate the potentiating effects of ATP on GABAergic synaptic transmission in the immature hippocampus. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 23464-23470. Katarzyna Mercik, Maria Pytel, Enrico Cherubini & Jerzy W. Mozrzymas (2006) Effect of extracellular pH on recombinant a1b2g2 and a1b2 GABAA receptors Neuropharmacol. 51, 305-314. Safiulina VF, Fattorini G, Conti F & Cherubini E (2006) GABAergic signaling at mossy fiber synapses in neonatal rat hippocampus. J. Neurosci 26, 597-608. Safiulina VF, Kasyanov AM, Giniatullin R & Cherubini E (2005) Adenosine down regulates giant depolarizing potentials in the developing rat hippocampus by exerting a negative control on glutamatergic inputs. J. Neurophysiol. 94: 2797-2804. E. Cherubini (2005) Trasmissione sinaptica: generalita’, meccanismi e integrazione. Trasmissione sinaptica: recettori per i neurotrasmettitori. Fisiologia Medica, edi-ermes, Milano, pp. 109-129 e pp. 151-178. Mohajerani M. H. & Cherubini E (2005). Spontaneous recurrent network activity in organotypic rat hippocampal slices. Eur. J. Neurosci. 22, 107-118. Safiulina VF, Kasyanov AM, Sokolova E, Cherubini E & Giniatullin R (2005). ATP contributes to the generation of network-driven giant depolarizing potentials in the neonatal rat hippocampus. J. Physiol. 563, 981-992. Petrini EM, Marchionni I, Zacchi P, Sieghart W & Cherubini E (2004). Clustering of extrasynaptic GABAA receptors modulates tonic inhibition in cultured hippocampal neurons. J. Biological Chemistry, 279: 45833-45843. Barberis, A., Petrini, E.M. & Cherubini, E. (2004) Presynaptic source of quantal size variability at GABAergic synapses in rat hippocampal neurons in culture. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20: 1803-1810. Maggi L, Sola E, Minneci F, Le Magueresse C, Changeux J-P & Cherubini E (2004). Persistent decrease in synaptic efficacy induced by nicotine at Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses in the immature rat hippocampus. J Physiol 559: 863-874. Voronin, L.L. & Cherubini, E. (2004) “Deaf, mute and whispering” silent synapses: their role in synaptic plasticity. Journal of Physiol, 557, 3-12. Raffaelli G, Saviane C, Mohajerani MH, Pedarzani P & Cherubini E (2004) BK channels control transmitter release at CA3-CA3 synapses in the rat hippocampus. J. Physiol, 557, 147-157. Voronin LL, Altinbaev RS, Bayazitov IT, Gasparini S, Kasyanov AV, Saviane C, Savtchenko L & Cherubini E (2004) Postsynaptic depolarisation enhances transmitter release and causes the appearance of responses at “silent” synapses in rat hippocampus. Neuroscience, 126, 45-59. Kasyanov, A.M., Safiulina, V.F., Voronin, L.L. & Cherubini, E. (2004) GABA-mediated giant depolarizing potentials as coincidence detectors for enhancing synaptic efficacy in the developing hippocampus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 3967-3972.