Borghuis BG, Ratliff CP, Smith RG, Sterling P, Balasubramanian V (2008) Design of a neuronal array. J Neurosci 28(12):3178-3189. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
LoGiudice L, Sterling P, Matthews G (2008) Mobility and turnover of vesicles at the synaptic ribbon. J Neurosci 28(12):3150-3158. [ABSTRACT][FULL PDF]
Matthews, G, Sterling, P (2008) Evidence that vesicles undergo compound fusion on the synaptic ribbon. J Neurosci (in press). [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Xu Y, Vasuda V, Vardi N,Sterling P, Freed M (2008) Different types of ganglion cell share a synaptic pattern. J Comp Neurol 507:1871-1878. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Calkins D, Sterling P (2007) Microcircuitry for two types of achromatic ganglion cell in primate fovea. J Neurosci 27(10):2646-2653. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Sheng Z, Choi S-Y, Dharia A, Li J, Sterling P, Kramer RH (2007) Synaptic Ca2+ in darkness is lower in rods than cones causing slower tonic release of vesicles. J Neurosci 27(19):5033-5042 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Shoshan-Barmatz V, Zakar M, Shmuelivich F, Nahon E, Vardi N (2007) Retina expresses a novel variant of the ryanodine receptor. Eur J Neurosci 26:3113-3125. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Sterling P, Freed MA (2007) How robust is a neural circuit? Vis Neurosci 24:563-571. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Gastinger M, Barber A, Vardi N, Marshak D (2006) Histamine receptors in mammalian retinas. J Comp Neurol 495:658-667. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Kao Y-H, Sterling P (2006) Displaced GAD65 amacrine cells of the guinea pig retina are morphologically diverse. Vis Neurosci 23(6):931-939. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Koch K, McLean J; Segev R, Freed MA, Berry MJ II,Balasubramanian V, Sterling P (2006) How much the eye tells the brain. Curr Biol 16:1428-1434. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Morgan JL, Dhingra A, Vardi N, Wong ROL (2006) Axons and dendrites originate from neuroepithelial-like processes of retinal bipolar cells. Nat Neurosci 9:85-92. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Yin L, Smith RG, Sterling P, Brainard DH (2006) Chromatic properties of horizontal and ganglion cell responses follow a dual gradient in cone opsin expression. J Neurosci 26:12351–12361. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Zhang LL, Fina ME, Vardi N (2006) Regulation of KCC2 and NKCC during development: membrane insertion and differences between cell types. J Comp Neurol 499:132-143. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Zhang LL, Pathak HR, Coulter DA, Freed MA, Vardi N (2006) Shift of intracellular chloride concentration in ganglion and amacrine cells of developing mouse retina. J Neurophys 95:2404-16. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Choi S-Y, Borghuis B, Rea R, Levitan ES, Sterling P, Kramer RH (2005) Encoding light intensity by the cone photoreceptor synapse. Neuron 48:555-562 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Dhingra NK, Freed MA, Smith RG (2005). Voltage-gated sodium channels improve contrast sensitivity of a retinal ganglion cell. J Neurosci 25:8097-8103 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Freed, MA (2005). Quantal encoding of information in a retinal ganglion cell. J Neurophysiol 94:1048-1056 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Norton AW, Hosier S, Terew JM, Li N, Dhingra A, Vardi N, Baehr W, Cote RH (2005) Evaluation of the 17 kDa prenyl binding protein as a regulatory protein for phototransduction in retinal receptors. J Biol Chem 280:1248-1256. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Shoshan-Barmatz V,Orr L, Martin C, Vardi N (2005) Novel ryanodine-binding properties in mammalian retina. Intl J Biochem & Cell Biol 37:1681-1695. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Sterling P, Matthews G (2005) Structure and function of ribbon synapses. TINS 28:20-29. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Xu Y, Dhingra NK, Smith RG, Sterling P (2005) Sluggish and brisk ganglion cells detect contrast with equal sensitivity. J Neurophysiol 93:2388-2395. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Berntson A, Smith RG, Taylor WR (2004) Postsynaptic calcium feedback between rods and rod bipolar cells in the mouse retina. Visual Neurosci. 21:913-924. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Berntson A, Smith RG, Taylor WR (2004) Transmission of single photon signals through a binary synapse in the mammalian retina. Visual Neurosci. 21:693-702. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Demb JB, Sterling P, Freed MA (2004) How retinal ganglion cells prevent synaptic noise from reaching the spike output. J Neurophysiol 92:2510–2519. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Dhingra A, Faurobert E, Dascal N, Sterling P, Vardi N (2004) A retinal-specific regulator of G-protein signaling interacts with G(alpha)o and accelerates an expressed metabotropic glutamate receptor 6 cascade. J Neurosci 24(25):5684-5693. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Dhingra NK, Smith RG (2004) Spike generator limits efficiency of information transfer in a retinal ganglion cell. J Neuroscience 24(12):2914-2922. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Kao Y-H, Lassová L, Sterling P, Vardi N (2004) Evidence that two types of retinal bipolar cell use both glutamate and GABA. J Comp Neurol 478:207-218. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Koch K, McLean J, Berry M, Sterling P, Balasubramanian V, Freed MA (2004) Efficiency of information transmission by retinal ganglion cells. Curr Biol 14:1523-1530. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Rea R, Li J, Dharia A, Levitan ES, Sterling P, Kramer RH (2004) Streamlined synaptic vesicle cycle in cone photoreceptor terminals. Neuron 41:755-766. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Shoshan-Barmatz V, Zalk R, Gincel D, Vardi N (2004) Sub-cellular localization of VDAC in cerebellum suggests function in ER-mitochondria cross-talk. BBA-bioenergetics. 1657:105-114. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Schein S, Sterling P, Ngo IT, Herr S (2004) Evidence that each S cone in macaque fovea drives one narrow-field and several wide-field blue-yellow ganglion cells. J Neurosci 24(38):8366-8378. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Singer JH, Lassová L, Vardi N, Diamond JS (2004) Coordinated multivesicular release at a ribbon synapse. Nature Neurosci 7(8): 826-833. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Sterling P, Smith RG (2004) Design for a binary synapse. Neuron 41:313-315. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Taylor WR, Smith RG (2004) Transmission of scotopic signals from the rod to rod-bipolar cell in the mammalian retina. Vision Res 44:3269-3276. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Tukker JJ, Taylor WR, Smith, RG. (2004) Direction selectivity in a model of the starburst amacrine cell. Vis Neurosci 21:611-625. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Zenisek D, Horst N, Merrifield C, Sterling P, Matthews G. (2004) Visualizing synaptic ribbons in the living cell. J Neurosci 24:9752-9759. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Ahmad KM, Klug K, Herr S, Sterling P, Schein S (2003) Cell density ratios in a foveal patch in macaque retina. Vis Neurosci 20:189-209 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Dhingra NK, Kao Y-H, Sterling P, Smith RG (2003) Contrast threshold of a brisk-transient ganglion cell. J Neurophysiol 89:2360-2369. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Freed MA, Smith RG, Sterling P (2003) Timing of quantal release from the retinal bipolar terminal is regulated by a feedback circuit. Neuron 38:89-101. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Herr S, Klug K, Sterling P, Schein S (2003) Inner S-cone bipolar cells provide all of the central elements for S cones in macaque retina. J Comp Neurol 457:185-201 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Kao Y-H, Sterling P (2003) Matching neural morphology to molecular expression: single cell injection following immunostaining. J Neurocytol 32:245-251. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Klug K, Herr S, Ngo I-T, Sterling P, Schein S (2003) Macaque retina contains an S-cone OFF midget pathway. J Neurosci 23(30):9881-9887. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Migdale K, Herr S, Klug K, Ahmad K, Linberg K, Sterling P, Schein S (2003) Two ribbon synaptic units in rod photoreceptors of macaque, human, and cat. J Comp Neurol 455:100-112 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Paillart C, Li J, Matthews G, Sterling P (2003) Endocytosis and vesicle recycling at a ribbon synapse. J Neurosci 23:4092-4099 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Parsons T, Sterling P (2003) Synaptic ribbon: conveyor belt or safety belt? Neuron 37:379-382. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Venkataraman V, Duda T, Vardi N, Koch K-W, Sharma RK (2003) Calcium-modulated guanylate cyclase transduction machinery in the photoreceptor-bipolar synaptic region. Biochemistry 42:5640-5648. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Zaghloul K, Boahen K, Demb JB (2003) Different circuits for ON and OFF retinal ganglion cells cause different contrast sensitivities. J Neurosci 23:2645-2654 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Burris C, Klug K, Ngo I-T, Sterling P, Schein S (2002) How Müller glial cells in primate fovea coat cone synaptic terminals. J Comp Neurol 453:100-111 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
DeVries S, Qi X, Smith RG, Makous W, Sterling P (2002) Electrical coupling between mammalian cones. Curr Biol 12:1900-1907 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Dhingra A, Jiang M, Wang T-L, Lyubarsky A, Savchenko A, Bar-Yehuda T, Sterling P, Birnbaumer L, Vardi N (2002) Light response of retinal ON bipolar cells requires a specific splice variant of Gao. J Neurosci 22:4878-4884 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Heidelberger R, Sterling P, Matthews G (2002) Roles of ATP in depletion and replenishment of the releasable pool of synaptic vesicles. J Neurophysiol 88:98-106 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Kawai F, Sterling P (2002) cGMP modulates spike responses of retinal ganglion cells via cGMP-gated channel. Vis Neurosci 19:373-380 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Vardi N, Dhingra A, Zhang L, Lyubarsky A, Wang TL, Morigiwa K (2002) Neuronal organization of the first visual synapse. Keio J Medicine 51(3):154-164. [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]Sterling P (2002) Needle from a haystack: optimal signaling by a nonlinear synapse. Neuron 34(5):670-672 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Sterling P (2002) How neurons compute direction. Nature 420:375-376 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Yang J, McBride S, Mak D-OD, Vardi N, Palczewski K, Haeseleer F, Foskett JK (2002) Identification of a family of calcium sensors as protein ligands of inositol trisphosphate receptor Ca2+ release channels. PNAS 99(11):7711-7716 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Demb J, Zaghloul K, Haarsma L, Sterling P (2001) Bipolar cells contribute to nonlinear spatial summation in the brisk transient (Y) ganglion cell in mammalian retina. J Neurosci 21:7447-7454 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Demb J, Zaghloul K, Sterling P (2001) Cellular basis for the response to second-order motion cues in Y retinal ganglion cells. Neuron 32:711-721 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Tsukamoto Y, Morigiwa K, Ueda M, Sterling P (2001) Microcircuits for night vision in mouse retina. J Neurosci 12:8616-8623 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Dhingra A, Lyubarsky A, Jiang M, Pugh EN Jr, Birnbaumer L, Sterling P, Vardi N (2000) The light response of ON bipolar neurons requires Gao. J Neurosci 20:9053-9058 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Freed MA (2000) Parallel cone bipolar pathways to ganglion cell use different rates and amplitude of quantal excitation. J Neurosci 20:3956-3963 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Freed MA (2000) Rate of quantal excitation to a retinal ganglion cell evoked by sensory input. J Neurophysiol 83:2956-2966 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Hsu A, Smith RG, Buchsbaum G, Sterling P (2000) Cost of cone coupling to trichromacy in primate fovea. J Opt Soc Amer A 17:635-640 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Vardi N, Duvoisin R, Wu G, Sterling P (2000) Localization of mGluR6 to dendrites of ON bipolar cells in primate retina. J Comp Neurol 423:402-412 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Vardi N, Zhang LL, Payne JA, Sterling P (2000) Evidence that different cation chloride cotransporters in retinal neurons allow opposite responses to GABA. J Neurosci 20(20):7657-7663 [ABSTRACT] [FULL PDF]
Invited Chapters
Sterling P (2004) Principles of allostasis: optimal design, predictive regulation, pathophysiology and rational therapeutics. IN: Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Adaptation. (J Schulkin, ed) Cambridge University Press. [FULL PDF]
Sterling P (2004) How retinal circuits optimize the transfer of visual information. In: The Visual Neurosciences (Chalupa LM, Werner JS eds) MIT Press. [FULL PDF ]
Sterling P, Demb J (2004) Retina. (REVIEW) In: The Synaptic Organization of the Brain (Shepherd GM ed),. New York: Oxford University Press, 5th edtion. [FULL PDF]
Sterling, P. (1999) The ganglion cell receptive field. In: The Retinal Basis of Vision. (eds. J. Toyoda, M. Murakami, A. Kaneko, T. Saito), Amsterdam, Elsevier Science B, pp. 163-169.
Sterling P (1998) Retina. (REVIEW) In: The Synaptic Organization of the Brain (Shepherd GM ed),. New York: Oxford University Press, 4th edition.
Sterling P (1992) Retina. (REVIEW) In: The Synaptic Organization of the Brain (Shepherd GM ed),. New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition.