Published/Submitted Articles
on Strain (Stretch)-injured
Brain-derived Cells in Culture
1. Ellis, E.F.,
J. McKinney, K. Willoughby and S. Liang. A new model for rapid
stretch-induced injury of cells in culture: characterization
of the model using astrocytes. J. Neurotrauma 12: 325-339, 1995.
2. Tavalin,
S.J., E.F. Ellis and L.S. Satin. Mechanical perturbation of
cultured cortical neurons reveals a stretch-induced delayed
depolarization. J. Neurophysiology 74: 2767-2773, 1995.
3. McKinney
J.S., K. Willoughby, S. Liang and E.F. Ellis. Stretch-induced
injury of cultured neuronal, glial, and endothelial cells: the
effect of polyethylene glycol-conjugated superoxide dismutase.
Stroke 27: 934-940, 1996.
4. Zhang, L.,
B. Rzigalinski, E.F. Ellis and L.S. Satin. Reduction of voltage-dependent
Mg2+ blockade of NMDA current in mechanically injured cortical
neurons. Science 274: 1921-1923, 1996.
5. Rzigalinski,
B., S. Liang, J.S. McKinney, K.A. Willoughby and E.F. Ellis.
The effect of calcium on in vitro astrocyte injury. J. Neurochem.
68: 289-296, 1997.
6. Tavalin,
S.J., Ellis, E.F. and Satin, L.S. Inhibition of the electrogenic
Na pump underlies delayed depolarization of cortical neurons
following mechanical injury or glutamate. J. Neurophysiol. 77:
632-638, 1997.
7. Lamb, R.G.,
C.C. Harper, J.S. McKinney, B.A. Rzigalinski and E.F. Ellis.
Alterations in phosphatidylcholine metabolism of stretch-injured
cultured rat astrocytes. J. Neurochem. 68: 1904-1910, 1997
8. Rzigalinski,
B.A., J.T. Weber, K.A. Willoughby and E.F. Ellis. Intracellular
free calcium dynamics in stretch-injured astrocytes. J. Neurochem.
70: 2377-2385, 1998.
9. Goforth,
P.B., E.F. Ellis and L.S. Satin. Enhancement of AMPA-mediated
current following traumatic injury in cortical neurons. J. Neuroscience,
19: 7367-7374, 1999.
10. Weber, J.T., B.A. Rzigalinski,
K.A. Willoughby, S.F. Moore and E.F. Ellis. Alterations in calcium-mediated
signal transduction and intracellular calcium stores after traumatic
injury or cortical neurons. Cell Calcium 26: 289-99, 1999.
11. Ahmed, S.M., B.A. Rzigalinski,
K.A. Willoughby, H.A. Sitterding and E.F. Ellis. Stretch-induced
injury alters mitochondrial membrane potential and cellular
ATP in cultured astrocytes and neurons. J. Neurochem. 74: 1951-1960,
2000.
12. Hoffman, S.W., B.A.
Rzigalinski, K.A. Willoughby and E.F. Ellis. Astrocytes generate
isoprostanes in response to trauma or oxygen radicals. J. Neurotrauma
17: 415-420, 2000.
13. Weber, J.T., B.A. Rzigalinski
and E.F. Ellis. Traumatic injury of cortical neurons causes
changes in intracellular calcium stores and capacitative calcium
influx. J. Biol. Chem. 216: 1800-1807, 2001.
14. Floyd, C.L., B.A. Rzigalinski,
J.T. Weber, H.A. Sitterding, K.A. Willoughby and E.F. Ellis.
Traumatic injury of cultured astrocytes alters inositol (1,4,5)-trisphosphate
mediated signaling. Glia 33:12-23, 2001
15. Weber, J.T., B.A. Rzigalinski
and E.F. Ellis. Calcium responses to caffeine and muscarinic
receptor agonists are altered in traumatically injured neurons.
J. Neurotrauma 19: 1433-1443, 2002.
16. Ahmed, S.M., J.T. Weber,
S. Liang, K.A. Willoughby, H.A. Sitterding, B.A. Rzigalinski
and E.F. Ellis. NMDA receptor activation contributes to a portion
of the decreased mitochondrial membrane potential and elevated
intracellular free calcium in stretch-injured neurons. J. Neurotrauma
19: 1619-129, 2002.
17. Neary, J.T., Y. Kang,
K.A. Willoughby and E.F. Ellis. Activation of ERK by stretch-induced
injury in astrocytes involves extracellular ATP and P2 purinergic
receptors J Neurosci. 2003 Mar 15;23(6):2348-56.
18. Floyd, C.L., B.A.
Rzigalinski, H.A. Sitterding, K.A. Willoughby and E.F. Ellis.
Antagonism of metabotropic group 1 receptors and PLC attenuates
injury-induced increases in inositol (1,4,5)-trisphosphate in
cultured astrocytes. J. Neurotrauma 21(2): 215-216, 2004.
19. Chen, T., K.A. Willoughby
and E.F. Ellis. Group I metabotropic receptor antagonism blocks
depletion of calcium stores and reduces potentiated capacitative
calcium entry in strain-injured neurons and astrocytes. J. Neurotrauma
21(3):271-281, 2004.
20. Kao, C.-Q., P.B. Goforth,
E.F. Ellis and L.S. Satin. Potentiation of GABAA
currents after mechanical injury of cortical neurons. J. Neurotrauma,
21(3): 259-270, 2004.
21. Goforth, P.B., E.F. Ellis,
L.S. Satin. Mechanical-injury modulates AMPA receptor kinetics
via an NMDA receptor-dependent pathway. J. Neurotrauma 21: 719-723,
2004.
22. Willoughby, K.A., A.
Kleindienst, C. Müller, T. Chen, J.K. Muir and E.F. Ellis.
S100B protein is released by in vitro trauma and reduces delayed
neuronal injury. J. Neurochem. 91: 1284-1291, 2004.
23. Ellis, E.F., K.A. Willoughby, S.A. Sparks and T.A. Chen. S100B protein is released from rat neonatal neurons, astrocytes, and microglia by in vitro trauma and anti-S100 increases trauma-induced delayed neuronal injury and negates the protective effect of exogenous S100B on neurons. J. Neurochem. 101: 1463-1470, 2007.