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• Lisman, J.E. and J.E. Brown
  Two light-dependent processes in the photoreceptor cells of Limulus ventral eye.
  J. Gen. Physiol., 58: 544-561, 1971.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and J.E. Brown
  The effects of intracellular sodium and calcium ions on the light response of Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol., 59: 701-719, 1972.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and J.E. Brown
  The effects of intracellular Ca2+ on the light response and on light adaptation in Limulus ventral photoreceptors
  In The Visual System (ed. Arden), Plenum, p. 23-33, 1972b.
  
  
• Brown, J.E. and J.E. Lisman
  An electrogenic sodium pump in Limulus ventral photoreceptor cells.
  J. Gen. Physiol., 59: 720-733, 1972.
  
  
• Sperling, L., J.E. Lisman and A. Godfrey
  Light-evoked responses from the ventral parolfactory vesicles of Loligo pealei.
  Biol. Bull. 145, No. 2, 1973.
  
  
• Fein, A. and J.E. Lisman
  Localized desensitization of Limulus photoreceptors produced by light or intracellular Ca++ injection.
  Science 187: 1094-1096, 1975.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and J.E. Brown
  Light-induced changes of sensitivity in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. of Gen. Physiol. 66: 473-488, 1975.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and J.E. Brown
  The effect of intracellular injection of EGTA on light-adaptation in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 66: 489-506, 1975.
  
  
• Brown, J.E. and J.E. Lisman
  Intracellular Ca modulates both sensitivity and time scale in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  Nature 258: 252-253, 1975.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and Y. Sheline
  Analysis of the rhodopsin cycle in Limulus ventral photoreceptors using the early receptor potential.
  J. of Gen. Physiol. 68: 487-501, 1976.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  Effects of removing extracellular Ca2+ on excitation and adaptation in Limulus ventral photoreceptors. Biophysical
  J. 16: 1331-1335, 1976.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and H. Bering
  Electrophysiological Measurement of the Number of Rhodopsin Molecules in Single Limulus Photoreceptors.
  J. of Gen. Physiol. 70: 621-633, 1977.
  
  
• Strong, J. and J.E. Lisman
  Initiation of Light Adaptation in Barnacle Photoreceptors.
  Science 200: 1485-1487, 1978.
  
  
• Pepose, J.S. and J.E. Lisman
  Voltage-sensitive potassium channels in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 71: 101-120, 1978.
  
  
• Swan, M., G. Fain and J.E. Lisman
  EGTA itself reduces outward current in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  Biol. Bull. 155: 468, 1978.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and J. Strong
  Initiation of Excitation and light adaptation in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 73: 219-243, 1979.
  
  
• Leonard, R.J. and J.E. Lisman
  Light modulates voltage-dependent potassium channels in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  Science 212: 1273-1275, 1981.
  
  
• Fain, G.L. and J.E. Lisman
  Membrane conductances of photoreceptors.
  Prog. Biophys. Molec. Biol. 37: 91-147, 1981.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E., S. Schulman, Y. Sheline and P.K. Brown
  Properties of the pH-sensitive site that controls the gmax of Limulus metarhodopsin.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 77: 191-203, 1981.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E., G.L. Fain and P.M. O'Day
  Voltage-dependent conductances in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 79: 187-209, 1982.
  
  
• O'Day, P.M., J.E. Lisman and M. Goldring
  Functional significance of voltage-dependent conductances in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 79: 211-232, 1982.
  
  
• Stern, J., K. Chinn, J. Bacigalupo and J.E. Lisman
  Distinct Lobes of Limulus Ventral Photoreceptors. I. Functional and Anatomical Properties of Lobes Revealed by Removal of Glial Cells.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 80: 825-837, 1982.
  
  
• Stern, J. and J.E. Lisman
  Internal dialysis of Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 79: 7580-7584, 1982.
  
  
• Bacigalupo, J. and J.E. Lisman
  Single-Channel Currents Activated by Light in Limulus Ventral Photoreceptors.
  Nature 304: 268-270, 1983.
  
  
• Goldring, M.A., J.E. Lisman, P. Humblet and R.M. Dudley
  Single Photon Transduction in Limulus Photoreceptors and the Borsellino-Fuortes model.
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Neural and Sensory Information Processing; 1983.
  
  
• Bacigalupo, J. and J.E. Lisman
  Light-Activated Channels in Limulus Ventral Photoreceptors.
  Biophys. J. 45: 3-5, 1984.
  
  
• Goldring, M. and J.E. Lisman
  The quantum bump area distribution in voltage-clamped Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 24: 178, 1984.
  
  
• Chinn, K. and J.E. Lisman
  Calcium mediates the light-induced decrease in maintained K+ current in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 84: 447-462, 1984.
  
  
• Chinn, K. and J.E. Lisman
  Light reduces voltage-dependent inward current in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 84: 463-473, 1984.
  
  
• O'Day, P.M. and J.E. Lisman
  Octopamine enhances dark-adaptation in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Neurosci. 5,(6): 1490-1496, 1985.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  The role of metarhodopsin in the generation of spontaneous quantum bumps in ultraviolet receptors of Limulus median eye. Evidence for reverse reactions into an active state.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 85: 171-187, 1985.
  
  
• Stern, J., K. Chinn, P. Robinson, and J.E. Lisman
  The effect of nucleotides on the rate of spontaneous quantum bumps in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 85: 157-169, 1985.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and M. Goldring
  Early events in visual transduction in Limulus photoreceptors.
  Neurosci. Res. 2: S101-S117, 1985.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  A mechanism for memory storage insensitive to molecular turnover: A bistable autophosphorylating kinase.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82: 3055-3057, 1985.
  
  
• Bacigalupo, J., K. Chinn, J.E. Lisman
  Ion channels activated by light in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 87: 73-89, 1986.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  Properties of the Light-dependent Membrane Conductances in Invertebrate Photoreceptors.
  in The Molecular Mechanism of Photoreception, (ed. H. Stieve) Springer-Verlag pp 189-198, 1986.
  
  
• Johnson, E.C., P.R. Robinson and J.E. Lisman
  Cyclic GMP is involved in the excitation of invertebrate photoreceptors.
  Nature 324: 468-470, 1986.
  
  
• Levine, E., E. Crain, P.R. Robinson and J.E. Lisman
  Nontransducing Rhodopsin.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 90: 575-586, 1987
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and M.A. Goldring
  Feasibility of long-term storage of graded information by the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase molecules of the postsynaptic density.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 85: 5320-5324, 1988.
  
  
• Lisman, J. and M. Goldring
  Evaluation of a model of long-term memory based on the properties of the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase.
  J. Physiol (Paris) 83:l87-l97, l989.
  
  
• Kirkwood, A., D. Weiner and J.E. Lisman
  An estimate of the number of G regulatory proteins activated per excited rhodopsin in living Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 86:3872-3876, l989.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  A mechanism for the Hebb and anti-Hebb Processes Underlying Learning and Memory.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 86:9574-9578, 1989.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E., Goldring, M., Robinson, P., and Kirkwood, A.
  The Apparent rate of Spontaneous G Protein Activation in Limulus Photoreceptors is Extremely Low.
  J. Gen. Physiology 94:33a, l989.
  
  
• Bacigalupo, J., E. Johnson, P. Robinson and J.E. Lisman: Second Messengers in Invertebrate Phototransduction.
  Transduction in Biological Systems. Plenum Press. editors: Hidalgo, Jaimovich, Bacigalupo, Vergara. 1990.
  
  
• Robinson, P.R., Wood, S.F., Szuts, E.Z., Fein, A., Hamm, H.E., and Lisman, J.E.
  Light-Dependent GTP-binding Proteins in Squid Photoreceptors.
  Biochemical Journal 272:79-85, 1990.
  
  
• Kahana, A., P.R Robinson, and J.E. Lisman
  Inactivation of squid rhodopsin in the absence of phosphorylation.
  Biology Bulletin 179: 230 (1990).
  
  
• Kirkwood, A., M.A. Simmons, R.J. Mather, J. Lisman
  Muscarinic Suppression of the M-current is Mediated by a Rise in Internal Ca2+ Concentration.
  Neuron 6:1-20, 1991.
  
  
• Bacigalupo, J. E. Johnson, C. Vergara, and J.E. Lisman
  Light-dependent channels from excised patches of Limulus ventral photoreceptors are opened by cyclic GMP.
  P.N.A.S. 88:7938-7942, 1991.
  
  
• Johnson, E.C., J. Bacigalupo, C. Vergara, and J.E. Lisman
  Multiple conductance states of the light-activated channel of Limulus ventral photoreceptors: Alteration of conductance state during light.
  J. of Gen. Physiology 97:1187-1205, 1991.
  
  
• Lisman, J. M. Erickson, E. Richard, J. Bacigalupo, and E. Johnson
  New insights into early, intermediate, and late steps in phototransduction.
  Abstract, Society of General Physiologists Meeting 1991.
  
  
• Ross, W.N., Jaffe, D., Lasser-Ross, N., Lisman, J., and Johnston,D.
  Large increases in intracellular Ca2+ require postsynaptic action potentials in hippocampal pyramidal neurons.
  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 17(1):581, 1991.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  Calcium/calmodulin kinase: A possible storage mechanism for the memory trace.
  Abstract, Biochemical Engrams of Memory, The Role of Calcium Symposium, Verona, Italy, 1991.
  
  
• Kirkwood, A. and Lisman, J.E.
  Action potentials produce a long-term enhancement of M-current in frog sympathetic ganglion.
  Brain Research 580:281-287, 1992.
  
  
• Kahana, A., Robinson, P.R., Lewis, L.J., Szuts, E.Z., and Lisman, J.E.
  ATP-independent deactivation of squid rhodopsin.
  Visual Neuroscience 9:595-602, 1992.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E., Erickson, M.A., Richard, E.A., Cote, R.H., Bacigalupo, J., Johnson, E., and Kirkwood, A.
  Mechanisms of amplification, deactivation, and noise reduction in invertebrate photoreceptors.
  in Sensory Transduction, Rockefeller Press, 1992.
  
  
• Jaffe, D.B., Johnston, D., Lasser-Ross, N., Lisman, J.E., Miyakawa, H., and Ross, W.N.
  The spread of Na+ spikes determines the pattern of dendritic Ca2+ entry into hippocampal neurons.
  Nature 357:244-246, 1992.
  
  
• Erickson, M., Robinson, P., and Lisman, J.E.
  Deactivation of visual transduction can occur without GTP hydrolysis on G protein.
  Science 257:1255-1258, 1992.
  
  
• Richard, E.A. and Lisman, J.E.
  Rhodopsin deactivation is a modulated process in Limulus photoreceptors.
  Nature 356:336-338, 1992.
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  A model for the storage and modification of synpatic weights that underlies memory.
  Abstract, 1st UIBMB Conference Biochemistry of Disease, Nagoya, Japan, June 1992.
  
  
• Miyakawa, H., Ross, W.N., Jaffe, D., Callaway, J.C., Lasser-Ross, N., Lisman, J.E., and Johnston, D.
  Synaptically activated increases in Ca2+ concentration in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells are primarily due to voltage-gated Ca2+ channels.
  Neuron 9:1163-1173, 1992.
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  CaM-Kinase as a memory storage device.
  Abstract, Biophysical Society Meeting, February 1993.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E. and Harris, K.M.
  Quantal analysis and synaptic anatomy - integrating two views of hipoocampal plasticity.
  Trends in Neuroscience 16:141-147, 1993.
  
  
• Fain, G. and J. Lisman
  Photoreceptor degeneration in vitamin A deprivation and retinitis pigmentosa: The equivalent light hypothesis.
  Exp. Eye Research 57:335-340, 1993. Huerta, P.T. and J. Lisman
  Heightened synaptic plasticity of hippocampal CA1 neurons during a cholinergically induced rhythmic state.
  Nature 364:723-725, 1993.
  
  
• Pugh, E.N., Lisman, J., and Payne R.
  Strange case of the third eye.
  Nature 364: 389-390, 1993.
  
  
• Ross, W.N., Miyakawa, H., Lev-Ram, V., N. Lasser-Ross, J. Lisman, D. Jaffe, and D. Johnston.
  Dendritic excitability in CNS neurons: Insights from dynamic calcium and sodium imaging in single cells.
  Japanese Journal of Physiology 43:S83-S89, 1993.
  
  
• Shin, J., Richard, E.A., and Lisman, J.E.
  Ca2+ is an obligatory intermediate in the excitation cascade of Limulus photoreceptors.
  Neuron 11: 845-855, 1993.
  
  
• Jaffe, D.B., Ross, W.N., Lisman, J.E., Lasser-Ross, N., Miyakawa, H., and Johnston, D.
  A model for dendritic Ca2+ accumulation in hippocampal pyramidal neurons based on fluorescence imaging measurements.
  J. of Neurophysiol. 71:1065-1077, 1994.
  
  
• Goldring, M. and J. Lisman
  Multi-step rhodopsin inactivation can account for the size variability of single photon responses in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.
  J. of Gen. Physiol. 103:691-727, 1994.
  
  
• Kirkwood, A. and J. Lisman
  Determinants of single photon response variability: Contribution of rhodopsin deactivation.
  J. Gen. Physiol. 103:679-690, 1994.
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  The CaM-Kinase hypothesis for the storage of synaptic memory.
  TINS 17:406-412, 1994.
  
  
• Malinow, R., Otmakhov, N., Blum, K.I., and Lisman, J.E.
  Visualizing hippocampal synaptic function by optical detection of Ca2+ entry through the NMDA channel.
  PNAS 91:8170-8174, 1994.
  
  
• Lisman, J. and K. Harris
  Who's been nibbling on my PSD: Is it LTD?
  J.Physiol. 88:193-195, 1994.
  
  
• Lisman, J. and Idiart, M.A.P.
  Storage of 7+/-2 short-term memories in oscillatory subcycles.
  Science 267:1512-1515, 1995.
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  What does the nucleus know about memories?
  The Journal of NIH Research 7:43-46, 1995.
  
  
• Idiart, M.A.P. and Lisman, J.
  Short-term memory as a single cell phenomenon. in
  The Neurobiology of Computation: Proceedings of the third annual computational and neural systems conference. Chapter 14, ed. James M. Bower, Kluwar Academic Publishers, 1995.
  
  
• Richard, E.A., Sampat, P., and Lisman, J.
  Distinguishing between roles for calcium in Limulus photoreceptor excitation.
  Cell Calcium 18:331-341, 1995.
  
  
• Lisman, J. and Fain, G.
  Support for the equivalent light hypothesis for RP. Nature Medicine 1:1254-1255, 1995. Huerta, P. and Lisman, J.
  Bidirectional synaptic plasticity induced by a single burst during cholinergic theta oscillation in CA1 in vitro.
  Neuron 15:1053-1063, 1995.
  
  
• Huerta, P.T. and Lisman, J.E.
  Synaptic plasticity during the cholinergic theta-frequency oscillation In Vitro.
  Hippocampus 6:58-61, 1996.
  
  
• Huerta, P. and Lisman, J.
  Low-frequency stimulation at the troughs of theta oscillation induces long-term depression of previously potentiated CA1 synapses.
  J. of Neurophysiol. 75:877-884, 1996.
  
  
• Selig, D.K., Segal, M.R., Liao, D., Malenka, R.C., Malinow, R., Nicoll, R.A., and Lisman, J.E.
  Examination of the role of cGMP in long-term potentiation in the CA1 region of the hippocampus.
  Learning and Memory 3:42-48, 1996.
  
  
• Otmakhova, N. and Lisman, J.E.
  D1/D5 dopamine receptor activation increases the magnitude of early long-term potentiation at CA1 hippocampal synapses.
  J. of Neuroscience 16(23):7478-7486, 1996.
  
  
• Jensen, O., Idiart, M.A.P., and Lisman, J.E.
  Physiologically realistic formation of autoassociative memory in networks with theta/gamma oscillations: role of fast NMDA channels.
  Learning and Memory 3:243-256, 1996.
  
  
• Jensen, O. and Lisman, J.E.
  Novel lists of 7± 2 known items can be reliably stored in an oscillatory short-term memory network: interaction with long-term memory.
  Learning and Memory 3:257-263, 1996.
  
  
• Jensen, O. and Lisman, J.E.
  Theta/gamma networks with slow NMDA channels learn sequences and encode episodic memory: role of NMDA channels in recall.
  Learning and Memory 3:264-278, 1996.
  
  
• Jensen, O. and Lisman, J.E.
  Hippocampal CA3 region predicts memory sequences: accounting for the past precession of place cells.
  Learning and Memory 3:279-287, 1996.
  
  
• Lisman, J. and Jensen, O.
  The importance of hippocampal gamma oscillation for place cells: A model that accounts for phage precession and spatial shift.
  in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, NY, pages 683-689, 1997.
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  Bursts as a unit of neural information: making unreliable synapses reliable.
  Trends in Neuroscience 20:38-43, 1997
  
  
• Lisman, J., Malenka, R.C., Nicoll, R.A., Malinow, R.
  Learning mechanisms: The case for CaM-KII.
  Science 276:2001-2002, 1997.
  
  
• Otmakhov, N., Griffith, L.C., and Lisman, J.E.
  Postsynaptic Inhibitors of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type II block induction but not maintenance of pairing-induced long-term potentiation.
  J. of Neuroscience 17:5357-5365, 1997.
  
  
• Richard, E.A., Ghosh, S., Lowenstein, J.M., and Lisman, J.E.
  Ca2+/calmodulin-binding peptides block phototransduction in Limulus ventral photoreceptors: Evidence for direct inhibition of phospholipase C.
  Proc.Natl.Acad. Sci. USA 94:14095-14099, 1997
  
  
• Fellous, J.M., Johnston, T., Segal, M. and Lisman, J.E.
  Carbachol-induced rhythms in the hippocampal slice: Slow (.5-2Hz), theta (4-10Hz) and gamma (80-100Hz) oscillations.
  Proceedings of the Computational Neuroscience Meeting, May 1998.
  
  
• Otmakhova, N.A. and Lisman, J.E.
  D1/D5 dopamine receptors inhibit depotentiation at CA1 synapses via cAMP-dependent mechanism.
  Journal of Neuroscience 18:1270-1279, 1998.
  
  
• Lisman, J.E., Fellous, J.-M., and Wang, X.-J.
  A role for NMDA channels in working memory.
  Nature Neuroscience 1:273-275, 1998.
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  Long-Term Potention.
  in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Elsevier Science, 1998
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  Long-Term Depression.
  in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Elsevier Science, 1998
  
  
• Jensen, O. and Lisman, J.E.
  An oscillatory short-term memory buffer model can account for data on the Sternberg Task.
  Journal of Neuroscience 18:10688-10699, 1998
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  What makes the brain’s tickers tock?
  Nature 394:132-133, (1998)
  
  
• Lisman, J.E.
  A Meeting in Honor of David Marr.
  Trends in Neuroscienc 22:2-3, 1999.
  
  
• Otmakhova, N. and Lisman, J.
  Dopamine selectively inhibits the direct cortical pathway to the CA1 hippocampal region.
  Journal of Neuroscience 19:1437-45, 1999.
  
  
• Fain, G.L. and Lisman, J.
  Visual transduction.
  in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Elsevier Science, 1999.
  
  
• Lisman, J. and Fallon, J.R.
  What Maintains Memories?
  Science 283:339-340, 1999.
  
  
• Lisman, J.
  Relating Hippocampal Circuitry to Function: Recall of Memory Sequences by Reciprocal Dentate/CA3 Interactions.
  Neuron 22:233-242, 1999.
  
  
• Kim, C.-H., and Lisman, J.E.
  A role of actin filament in synaptic transmission and long-term potentiation.
  Journal of Neuroscience 19:4314-4324, 1999.
  
  
• Chen, H.-X., Otmakhov, N., and Lisman, J.
  Requirements for LTP induction by pairing in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells.
  J. Of Neurophysiology 82:526-532, 1999.
  
  
• Fain, G.L. and Lisman, J.E.
  Light, Ca2+, and photoreceptor death: New evidence for the equivalent-light hypothesis from Arrestin knockout mice.
  Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 40: 2770-2772.

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