Dopamine Secretion Is Mediated by Sparse Active Zone-like Release Sites

Changliang Liu, Lauren Kershberg, Jie‐Xin Wang, +2

Cell

Dopamine Secretion IsNeurobiological MechanismHealth SciencesNeurophysiologyPhysiology +11

An action potential initiation mechanism in distal axons for the control of dopamine release

Changliang Liu, Xintong Cai, Andreas Ritzau‐Jost, +5

Science

Synaptic TransmissionDopamine DynamicsNeurotransmitterNeurotransmissionDistal Axons +16

Fusion Competent Synaptic Vesicles Persist upon Active Zone Disruption and Loss of Vesicle Docking

Shan Shan H. Wang, Richard G. Held, Man Yan Wong, +3

Neuron

Active Zone DisruptionMolecular NeuroscienceSynaptic SignalingEndocytic PathwayMolecular Biology +7

Functional Coupling between the Prefrontal Cortex and Dopamine Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area

Ming Gao, Changliang Liu, Yang Shen, +3

Journal of Neuroscience

NeuropsychologyBrain MechanismPrefrontal CortexSynaptic TransmissionAffective Neuroscience +22

α-Mangostin Suppresses PC-3 Human Prostate Carcinoma Cell Metastasis by Inhibiting Matrix Metalloproteinase-2/9 and Urokinase-Plasminogen Expression through the JNK Signaling Pathway

Shun‐Hsing Hung, Kun‐Hung Shen, Cheng‐Hsun Wu, +2

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Synapse and Active Zone Assembly in the Absence of Presynaptic Ca2+ Channels and Ca2+ Entry

Richard G. Held, Changliang Liu, Kunpeng Ma, +10

Neuron

Presynaptic Ca2+ ChannelsSynaptic PlasticityCellular NeurobiologyMolecular NeuroscienceNeurophysiology +11

Liprin-α3 controls vesicle docking and exocytosis at the active zone of hippocampal synapses

Man Yan Wong, Changliang Liu, Shan Shan H. Wang, +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The Active Zone Protein Family ELKS Supports Ca²⁺Influx at Nerve Terminals of Inhibitory Hippocampal Neurons

Changliang Liu, Lydia S. Bickford, Richard G. Held, +3

Journal of Neuroscience

ELKS controls the pool of readily releasable vesicles at excitatory synapses through its N-terminal coiled-coil domains

Richard G. Held, Changliang Liu, Pascal S. Kaeser

eLife

Releasable VesiclesSynaptic TransmissionNeurotransmitterNeurotransmissionCellular Neurobiology +22

Synaptotagmin-1 is the Ca2+ sensor for fast striatal dopamine release

Aditi Banerjee, Jinoh Lee, Paulina Nemcova, +2

eLife