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Palkar G, Wu JY, Ermentrout B. The inhibitory control of traveling waves in cortical networks. PLoS Comput Biol. 2023 Sep;19(9):e1010697. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010697. eCollection 2023 Sep. PubMed PMID: 37669292; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10503768.
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Baker B, Gao X, Wolff BS, Jin L, Cohen LB, Bleau CX, Wu JY. Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging of Population Signals in Brain Slices. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2015 Nov 2;2015(11):995-9. doi: 10.1101/pdb.prot089342. PubMed PMID: 26527768.
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Xu W, Wolff BS, Wu JY. Low-intensity electric fields induce two distinct response components in neocortical neuronal populations. J Neurophysiol. 2014 Nov 15;112(10):2446-56. doi: 10.1152/jn.00740.2013. Epub 2014 Aug 13. PubMed PMID: 25122710; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4315449.
Zhang QF, Wen Y, Zhang D, She L, Wu JY, Dan Y, Poo MM. Priming with real motion biases visual cortical response to bistable apparent motion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Dec 11;109(50):20691-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1218654109. Epub 2012 Nov 27. PubMed PMID: 23188797; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3528509.
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Xiao Y, Huang XY, Van Wert S, Barreto E, Wu JY, Gluckman BJ, Schiff SJ. The role of inhibition in oscillatory wave dynamics in the cortex. Eur J Neurosci. 2012 Jul;36(2):2201-12. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08132.x. PubMed PMID: 22805065; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4410882.
Zheng K, An JJ, Yang F, Xu W, Xu ZQ, Wu J, Hökfelt TG, Fisahn A, Xu B, Lu B. TrkB signaling in parvalbumin-positive interneurons is critical for gamma-band network synchronization in hippocampus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Oct 11;108(41):17201-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1114241108. Epub 2011 Sep 26. PubMed PMID: 21949401; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3193255.
Takagaki K, Zhang C, Wu JY, Ohl FW. Flow detection of propagating waves with temporospatial correlation of activity. J Neurosci Methods. 2011 Sep 15;200(2):207-18. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.05.023. Epub 2011 Jun 2. PubMed PMID: 21664934; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3179389.
Huang X, Xu W, Liang J, Takagaki K, Gao X, Wu JY. Spiral wave dynamics in neocortex. Neuron. 2010 Dec 9;68(5):978-990. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.11.007. PubMed PMID: 21145009; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4433058.
Wu JY, Cohen LB. Now single spines: monitoring neuronal membrane potential with submicron and submillisecond resolution. J Physiol. 2010 Apr 15;588(Pt 8):1191-2. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.189589. PubMed PMID: 20395470; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2872725.
Wu JY, Xiaoying Huang, Chuan Zhang. Propagating waves of activity in the neocortex: what they are, what they do. Neuroscientist. 2008 Oct;14(5):487-502. doi: 10.1177/1073858408317066. Review. PubMed PMID: 18997124; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2679998.
Takagaki K, Zhang C, Wu JY, Lippert MT. Crossmodal propagation of sensory-evoked and spontaneous activity in the rat neocortex. Neurosci Lett. 2008 Feb 6;431(3):191-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.11.069. Epub 2007 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 18178313; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2292672.
Xu W, Huang X, Takagaki K, Wu JY. Compression and reflection of visually evoked cortical waves. Neuron. 2007 Jul 5;55(1):119-29. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.06.016. PubMed PMID: 17610821; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1988694.
Lippert MT, Takagaki K, Xu W, Huang X, Wu JY. Methods for voltage-sensitive dye imaging of rat cortical activity with high signal-to-noise ratio. J Neurophysiol. 2007 Jul;98(1):502-12. doi: 10.1152/jn.01169.2006. Epub 2007 May 9. PubMed PMID: 17493915; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2855339.
Arai Y, Mentis GZ, Wu JY, O'Donovan MJ. Ventrolateral origin of each cycle of rhythmic activity generated by the spinal cord of the chick embryo. PLoS One. 2007 May 2;2(5):e417. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000417. PubMed PMID: 17479162; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1855078.
Schiff SJ, Huang X, Wu JY. Dynamical evolution of spatiotemporal patterns in mammalian middle cortex. Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Apr 27;98(17):178102. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.178102. Epub 2007 Apr 25. PubMed PMID: 17501537; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2039901.
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Bolea S, Sanchez-Andres JV, Huang X, Wu JY. Initiation and propagation of neuronal coactivation in the developing hippocampus. J Neurophysiol. 2006 Jan;95(1):552-61. doi: 10.1152/jn.00321.2005. Epub 2005 Sep 21. PubMed PMID: 16177178; NIHMSID:NIHMS44723.
Huang X, Troy WC, Yang Q, Ma H, Laing CR, Schiff SJ, Wu JY. Spiral waves in disinhibited mammalian neocortex. J Neurosci. 2004 Nov 3;24(44):9897-902. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2705-04.2004. PubMed PMID: 15525774; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4413915.
Ma HT, Wu CH, Wu JY. Initiation of spontaneous epileptiform events in the rat neocortex in vivo. J Neurophysiol. 2004 Feb;91(2):934-45. doi: 10.1152/jn.00274.2003. Epub 2003 Oct 8. PubMed PMID: 14534285; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2909741.
Bao W, Wu JY. Propagating wave and irregular dynamics: spatiotemporal patterns of cholinergic theta oscillations in neocortex in vitro. J Neurophysiol. 2003 Jul;90(1):333-41. doi: 10.1152/jn.00715.2002. Epub 2003 Feb 26. PubMed PMID: 12612003; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2941800.
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Tsau Y, Guan L, Wu JY. Epileptiform activity can be initiated in various neocortical layers: an optical imaging study. J Neurophysiol. 1999 Oct;82(4):1965-73. doi: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.4.1965. PubMed PMID: 10515986; NIHMSID:NIHMS44730.
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