Publications of Bert Sakmann

Larkum, M. E.; Waters, D. J.; Sakmann, B.; Helmchen, F.: Dendritic spikes in apical dendrites of neocortical layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience 27 (34), pp. 8999 - 9008 (2007)

de Kock, C.; Bruno, R. M.; Spors, H.; Sakmann, B.: Layer- and cell-type-specific suprathreshold stimulus representation in rat primary somatosensory cortex. The Journal of Physiology - London 581 (1), pp. 139 - 154 (2007)

Hahn, T.; Sakmann, B.; Mehta, M.: Differential responses of hippocampal subfields to cortical up-down states. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (12), pp. 5169 - 5174 (2007)

Schaefer, A. T.; Helmstaedter, M.; Schmitt, A. C.; Bar−Yehuda, D.; Almog, M.; Ben−Porat, H.; Sakmann, B.; Korngreen, A.: Dendritic voltage-gated K+ conductance gradient in pyramidal neurones of neocortical layer 5B from rats. The Journal of Physiology - London 579 (3), pp. 737 - 752 (2007)

Celikel, T.; Sakmann, B.: Sensory integration across space and in time for decision making in the somatosensory system of rodents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (4), pp. 1395 - 1400 (2007)

Sakmann, B.: Patch pipettes are more useful than initially thought: simultaneous pre- and postsynaptic recording from mammalian CNS synapses in vitro and in vivo. Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology 453 (3), pp. 249 - 259 (2006)

Hahn, T.; Sakmann, B.; Mehta, M.: Phase-locking of hippocampal interneurons' membrane potential to neocortical up-down states. Nature Neuroscience 9 (11), pp. 1359 - 1361 (2006)

Nevian, T.; Sakmann, B.: Spine Ca2+ signaling in spike-timing-dependent plasticity. The Journal of Neuroscience: the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 26 (43), pp. 11001 - 11013 (2006)

Feldmeyer, D.; Lübke, J. H. R.; Sakmann, B.: Efficacy and connectivity of intracolumnar pairs of layer 2/3 pyramidal cells in the barrel cortex of juvenile rats. Journal of Physiology-London 575 (2), pp. 583 - 602 (2006)

Lee, A. K.; Manns, I.; Sakmann, B.; Brecht, M.: Whole-cell recordings in freely moving rats. Neuron 51 (4), pp. 399 - 407 (2006)

Bruno, R. M.; Sakmann, B.: Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses. Science 312 (5780), pp. 1622 - 1627 (2006)

Koenen, M.; Peter, C.; Villarroel, A.; Witzemann, V.; Sakmann, B.: Acetylcholine receptor channel subtype directs the innervation pattern of skeletal muscle. EMBO Reports 6 (6), pp. 570 - 576 (2005)

Bollmann, J. H.; Sakmann, B.: Control of synaptic strength and timing by the release-site Ca²⁺ signal. Nature Neuroscience 8 (4), pp. 426 - 434 (2005)

Feldmeyer, D.; Roth, A.; Sakmann, B.: Monosynaptic connections between pairs of spiny stellate cells in layer 4 and pyramidal cells in layer 5A indicate that lemniscal and paralemniscal afferent pathways converge in the infragranular somatosensory cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 25 (13), pp. 3423 - 3431 (2005)

Waters, D. J.; Schaefer, A. T.; Sakmann, B.: Backpropagating action potentials in neurones: measurement, mechanisms and potential functions. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 87 (1), pp. 145 - 170 (2005)

Broser, P. J.; Schulte, R.; Lang, S.; Roth, A.; Helmchen, F.; Waters, D. J.; Sakmann, B.; Wittum, G.: Nonlinear anisotropic diffusion filtering of three-dimensional image data from two-photon microscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics 9 (6), pp. 1253 - 1264 (2004)

Manns, I.; Sakmann, B.; Brecht, M.: Sub- and suprathreshold receptive field properties of pyramidal neurones in layers 5A and 5B of rat somatosensory barrel cortex. The Journal of Physiology - London 556 (2), pp. 601 - 622 (2004)

Brecht, M.; Schneider, M.; Sakmann, B.; Margrie, T. W.: Whisker movements evoked by stimulation of single pyramidal cells in rat motor cortex. Nature 427 (6976), pp. 704 - 710 (2004)

Nevian, T.; Sakmann, B.: Single spine Ca2+ signals evoked by coincident EPSPs and backpropagating action potentials in spiny stellate cells of layer 4 in the juvenile rat somatosensory barrel cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience: the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 24 (7), pp. 1689 - 1699 (2004)

Kaiser, K.; Lübke, J. H. R.; Zilberter, Y.; Sakmann, B.: Postsynaptic calcium influx at single synaptic contacts between pyramidal neurons and bitufted interneurons in layer 2/3 of rat neocortex is enhanced by backpropagating action potentials. The Journal of Neuroscience: the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 24 (6), pp. 1319 - 1329 (2004)