Publications by Felix E. Schweizer
 

Research Papers:

Th. Schafer, U. O. Karli, E. K.-M. Grathwohl, F. E. Schweizer and M. M. Burger (1987) Digitonin-permeabilized cells are exocytosis competent. J. Neurochem. 49,1697-1707.

Th. Schafer, U. O. Karli, F. E. Schweizer and M. M. Burger (1987) Docking of chromaffin granules: A necessary step in exocytosis? Biosci. Rep. 7, 269-279.

F. E. Schweizer, Th. Schafer, C. Tapparelli, M. Grob, U. O. Karli, R. Heumann, H. Thoenen, R. J. Bookman and M. M. Burger (1989) Inhibition of exocytosis by intracellularly applied antibodies against a chromaffin granule binding protein. Nature 399, 709-712.

T. A. Ryan, H. Reuter, B. Wendland, F. E. Schweizer, R. W. Tsien and S. J Smith. (1993) The kinetics of synaptic vesicle recycling measured at single presynaptic boutons. Neuron 11,713-724.

B. Wendland^*, F. E. Schweizer^*, T. A. Ryan, M. Nakane, F. Murad, R. H. Scheller, and R. W. Tsien. (1994) Existence of nitirc oxide synthase in rat hippocampal pyramidal cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 2151-2155.
^* B.W. and F.E.S. contributed equally to this work.

L W. Chiang, F. E. Schweizer, R. W. Tsien, and H. Schulman. (1994) Nitric oxide synthase expression in single hippocampal neurons. Mol. Brain Res. 27, 183-188.

W. M. DeBello, V. O'Connor, T. Dresbach, S. W. Whiteheart, S. S.-H. Wang, F. E. Schweizer, H. Betz, J. E. Rothman, G. J. Augustine. (1995) SNAP-mediated protein-protein interactions are essential for neurotransmitter release. Nature, 373, 626-630.

Felix E. Schweizer, Thomas Dresbach, William M. DeBello, Vincent O'Connor, George J. Augustine and Heinrich Betz. (1998). Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release Kinetics by NSF. Science279,1203-1206.

Sabine Hilfiker, Felix E. Schweizer, H.-T. Kao, Andrew J. Czernik, Paul Greengard and George J.Augustine. (1998) Two Sites of Action for Synapsin Domain E in Regulating Neurotransmitter Release. Nature Neuroscience 1, 29-35.

Tanya Sippy, Alberto Cruz-Martin, Andreas Jeromin and Felix E. Schweizer (2003) "Regulation of short term plasticity by the neuronal calcium sensor-1". Nature Neuroscience 6, 1031-1038.

Brian Edmonds, Frederick Gregory and Felix E. Schweizer, (2004) "Evidence that fast exocytosis can be predominantly mediated by vesicles not docked at active zones in frog saccular hair cells". Journal of Physiology 560, 439-450.

Hiroshi Egusa, Felix E. Schweizer, Chia-Chien Wang, Yoshizo Matsuka, and Ichiro Nishimura. (2005) "Adult Bone Marrow Stromal Stem Cells Differentiate through Silencing of Discordant Gene Clusters." Journal of Biological Chemistry 280, 23691-12697.

Baron Chanda, Rikard Blunck, Leonardo C. Faria, Felix E. Schweizer, Istvan Mody and Francisco Bezanilla. (2005) “A Hybrid Approach to Measuring Electrical Activity in Genetically Specified Neurons” Nature Neuroscience 8, 1619-1626.

Kristen Willeumier, Stefan M. Pulst and Felix E. Schweizer (2006) “Proteasome Inhibition Triggers Activity-Dependent Increase in the Size of the Recycling Vesicle Pool in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons” J. Neurosci. 26 11333-11341.

Peyman Golshani, Leah K. Hutnick, Felix E. Schweizer and Guoping Fan. (2005) "Conditional Dnmt1 deletion in dorsal forebrain disrupts development of somatosensory barrel cortex and thalamocortical long-term potentiation”. Thalamus and Related Systems. 3, 227-233. (Published March 5, 2007).

Yoshizo Matsuka, Brian Edmonds, Somsak Mitrirattanakul, Felix E. Schweizer and Igor Spigelman (2007) "Two types of neurotransmitter release patterns in IB4-positive and IB4-negative trigeminal ganglion neurons." Neuroscience. 144 665-74.

Alberto Cruz-Martín and Felix E. Schweizer (2008). “Imbalance between excitation and inhibition among synaptic connections of CA3 pyramidal neurons.” Eur. J. Neurosci. 27, 1353-1363

Letter to the Editor:

Felix E. Schweizer (2007). “Modifying theories is the fabric of scientific progress.” Nature 450 610.

Book Chapters:

Augustine, G. J., H. Betz, K. Bommert, M. P. Charlton, W.M. DeBello, T. Dresbach, J. M. Hunt, V. O'Connor, F. E. Schweizer, S. S.-H. Wang, and S. W. Whiteheart (1996) Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter secretion: Functional studies at the squid giant synapse. In Basic Neuroscience in Invertebrates, eds. H. Koike, Y. Kidokoro, K. Takahashi and T. Kanaseki, Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo, pp. 197-214.

Betz, H., V. O'Connor, T. Dresbach, L. Pelligrini, K. Bommert, W. DeBello, J.M. Hunt, F. E. Schweizer, G. Augustine, M.P. Charlton, R. Adams, K. Sato, A.W. Pueschel, C. Sur, P. Schloss. (1997). Proteins implicated in neurotransmitter release and reuptake. In Neurotransmitter release and uptake NATO ASI series, vol. 100. Springer, Berlin; New York.

Felix E. Schweizer. (2001) Synapses. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://www.els.net/ [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0000207].

Felix E. Schweizer (2005) "Synaptic Transmission." In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://www.els.net/ [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0000285]

Reviews:

F. E. Schweizer, Th. Schafer and M. M. Burger (1991) Intracellular mechanisms in exocytotic secretion. Biochem. Pharmacol. 41,163-169.

R. J. Bookman, N. Fidler Lim, F. E. Schweizer and M. Nowycky (1991) Single cell assays of excitation-secretion coupling. Annals NYAcad. Sci. 653, 352-364.

F. E. Schweizer, H. Betz, and G. J. Augustine. (1995) “From vesicle docking to endocytosis: Intermediate reactions of exocytosis”. Neuron, 14, 689-696.

George J. Augustine, Marie E. Burns, William M. DeBello, Diana L. Pettit, and Felix E. Schweizer. (1996)
”Exocytosis: Proteins and perturbations.” Annu Rev: Pharmacol. Toxicol., 36, 659-701.

Marie E. Burns, Sven A. Beushausen, Gilbert J. Chin, Delia Tang, William M. DeBello, Thomas Dresbach, Vincent O'Connor, Felix E. Schweizer, Samuel S.-H. Wang, Sidney W. Whiteheart, Larry A. Hawkey, Heinrich Betz and George J. Augustine (1996) “Proteins involved in synaptic vesicle docking and fusion.” Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol., 60, 337-348.

O'Connor, V., L Pelligrini, T. Dresbach, K. Bommert, O. El Far, H. Betz, W. DeBello, J.M. Hunt, F. Schweizer, G. Augustine and M.P. Charlton. (1996). Protein-protein interactions in synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Biochem. Soc. Trans., 24,666-670.

Felix E. Schweizer and George J. Augustine. (1998) SNARE Proteins and the Timing of Neurotransmitter Release. Molecular Psychiatry 3, 293-297.

Oussama El Far, Vincent O'Connor, Thomas Dresbach, Lorenzo Pellegrini, William DeBello, Felix E. Schweizer, George Augustine, Christian Heuss, Theo Schafer, Milton P. Charlton and Heinrich Betz.  (1998) Protein interactions implicated in neurotransmitter release. J. Physiol. (Paris) 92,129-133.

George J. Augustine, Marie E. Bums, William M. DeBello, Sabine Hilfiker, Jennifer Morgan, Felix E, Schweizer, Hiroshi Tokumaru and Keiko Umayahara. (1999). Proteins Involved in Synaptic Vesicle Trafficking. Journal of Physiology 520, 33-41.

Frederick D. Gregory and Felix E. Schweizer. (2002) Exocytosis with a snap. Nature Neuroscience 5, 4-6.

Lawrence Kruger, Alan R. Light and Felix E. Schweizer. (2003) Axonal terminals of sensory neurons and their morphological diversity. Journal of Neurocytology 32, 205-216.

Felix E. Schweizer and Timothy A. Ryan (2006) “The Synaptic Vesicle: cycle of exocytosis and endocytosis” Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 16(3), 298-304.

Selected Abstracts:

Richard J. Bookman, and Felix E. Schweizer (1988) Fast and slow phases in chromaffin cell exocytosis depend on Ca entry and Ca buffering, J. Gen. Physiol. 92, 4a.

Felix E. Schweizer, Julie A. Kauer, David D. Friel, and Richard W. Tsien (1992) Approaches to quantal analysis at the CA3-CA1 synapse in rat hippocampal slices. Soc. Neurosci. Abs., 18,176.3

A. D. Randall, B. Wendland, F. E. Schweizer G. Miljanich, M.E. Adams and Richard W. Tsien (1993) Five Pharmacologically distinct high voltage-activated Ca²⁺ channels in cerebellar granule cells. Soc. Neurosci. Abs., 19, 607.3.

Felix E. Schweizer, Karl Deisseroth, and Richard W. Tsien, (1994) Persistent Enhancement of spontaneous presynaptic transmitter release following K⁺ depolarization of cultured hippocampal neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abs., 20, 302.8.

Sabine Hilfiker, Felix E. Schweizer, H.-T. Kao, Andrew J. Czernik, Paul Greengard, and George J. Augustine. (1997) Synapsin domain E regulates transmitter release at the squid giant synapse. Soc. Neurosci. Abs. 23, 466.14.

Felix E. Schweizer, Vincent O'Connor, Heinrich Betz, and George J. Augustine. (1997) Mechanism of  action of NSF in neurotransmitter release. Soc. Neurosci. Abs. 23, 466.15.

Brian Edmonds and Felix E. Schweizer. (2000) Two phases of exocytosis from vestibular hair cells. Soc. Neurosci. Abs. 26, 34.1.

Brian Edmonds, Fredrick Gregory and Felix E. Schweizer. (2001) Rapid refilling of the fast pool of synaptic vesicles at the hair cell afferent synapse. Soc Neurosci Abs, 27.

Kristen Willeumier, Duong Huynh, Stefan Pulst and Felix E. Schweizer. (2002) A role for the E3-ubiquitin ligase parkin in neurotransmitter release? 1^st annual VA/UCLA research conference on Parkinson's disease and movement disorders.

Felix E. Schweizer, Ruth Heidelberger, Henrique von Gersdorff, Tobias Moser and Elisabeth Glowatzki (2002). Exocytosis at ribbon-type synapses. Soc Neurosci Abs. Symposium

Yoshizo Matsuka, Brian Edmonds, Felix E. Schweizer and Igor Spigelman (2003) Two types of neurotransmitter release patterns in IB4-positive and IB4-negative trigeminal ganglion neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.

Felix E. Schweizer and Course Students (2003) Long-term synaptic plasticity at the squid giant synapse. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.

Tanya Sippy, Alberto Cruz-Martin, Andreas Jeromin and Felix E. Schweizer. (2003) Acute changes in short-term plasticity independent of initial release probability at synapses with elevated levels of NCS-1. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.

Tanya Sippy, Alberto Cruz-Martín, Andreas Jeromin and Felix E. Schweizer. (2004) Regulation of short-term plasticity independent of basal release probability. 37^th Winter Conference on Brain Research.

Hiroshi Egusa, Yoshizo Matsuka, Felix E. Schweizer, and Ichiro Nishimura. (2004) "Selective Down-Regulation of Gene Expression in Adult Stem Cell Differentiation". The IADR/AADR/CADR 82nd General Session, Honolulu HI.

Kristen Willeumier, Stefan M. Pulst and Felix E. Schweizer. (2004) Proteasome inhibition triggers activity dependent increase in exocytosis in hippocampal neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.

Yoshizo Matsuka, Brian Edmonds, Somsak Mitrirattanakul, Felix E. Schweizer, and Igor Spigelman. (2005) "Different Vesicular Release Patterns in Two Subpopulations of Trigeminal Neurons.” The IADR/AADR/CADR 83rd General Session, Baltimore, MD.

Kristen Willeumier, Stefan M. Pulst and Felix E. Schweizer. (2005) Proteasome inhibition increases the recycling vesicle pool in hippocampal neurons.. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.

Alberto Cruz-Martín and Felix E. Schweizer (2005) Heterogeneity of Synaptic Feed-Forward Inhibition in Dual Recordings of Hippocampal CA3 Pyramidal Cells. Soc. Neurosci Abs.

Yoshizo Matsuka, Felix E. Schweizer, Brian Edmonds, Somsak Mitrirattanakul, Takuo Kuboki and Igor Spigelman. (2005) Two types of neurotransmitter release patterns in IB4 positive and negative trigeminal ganglion neurons. Soc Neurosci Abs.

Frederick D. Gregory and Felix E. Schweizer (2006) “Caffeine induced exocytosis in rat vestibular hair cells.” Soc. Neurosci Abs.

David Savin, Rebecca Hu, Larry F. Hoffman and Felix E. Schweizer (2007) “Localization of BK channels in mammalian vestibular hair cells” Association of for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting.

Patricia M. Quinones, Peter M. Narins and Felix E. Schweizer (2007). “Exocytosis in an auditory  organ of the frog.” Association of for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting.

Yoshi Kitamura, Yoshi Matsuka, Igor Spigelman, Felix. E. Schweizer, K. Oguma, T. Kuboki (2007) “Botulinum toxin blocks neurotransmitter release from somata of trigeminal ganglion neurons.” Soc. Neurosci Abs.

Gina V. Rinetti, Gabriela David, Vahri Beaumont, Felix E. Schweizer (2007). “Rapid increase in miniature and evoked synaptic currents upon inhibition of the ubiquitin-proteasome system. ” Soc. Neurosci Abs.

Felix E. Schweizer, David Savin, Rebecca Hu and Larry F. Hoffman (2007). “Distribution of BK positive hair cells in rodent vestibular epithelia.” Soc. Neurosci Abs.

Guoping Fan, Leah K Hutnick, Peyman Golshani, and Felix E. Schweizer (2008). “DNA hypomethylation impairs neuronal excitability and induces cortical degeneration during perinatal development.” American Society for Neurochemistry.