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  1. Influence of the Cholinergic System on the Pathogenesis of Glioblastoma: Impact of the Neutrophil Granulocytes

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  2. Quantitative evaluation of methods to analyze motion changes in single-particle experiments

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  3. Concurrent diffusion of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and fluorescent cholesterol disclosed by two-colour sub-millisecond MINFLUX-based single-molecule tracking

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  4. Temporal convolutional networks work as general feature extractors for single-particle diffusion analysis

    Article • Journal of Physics Photonics, March 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  5. Concurrent diffusion of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and fluorescent cholesterol disclosed by two-colour sub-millisecond MINFLUX-based single-molecule tracking

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  6. The pleomorphic cholesterol sensing motifs of transmembrane proteins

    Article • Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  7. Carlos Gutiérrez-Merino: Synergy of Theory and Experimentation in Biological Membrane Research

    Article • Molecules, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  8. A supervised graph-based deep learning algorithm to detect and quantify clustered particles

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  9. Insulin resistance induced by long-term hyperinsulinemia abolishes the effects of acute insulin exposure on cell-surface nicotinic acetylcholine receptor levels and actin cytoskeleton morphology

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, December 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  10. Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Dysfunction in Addiction and in Some Neurodegenerative and Neuropsychiatric Diseases

    Article • Cells, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  11. Therapeutic Strategies Aimed at Improving Neuroplasticity in Alzheimer Disease

    Article • Pharmaceutics, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  12. Role of cholesterol-recognition motifs in the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 variants

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, February 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  13. Mapping the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Nanocluster Topography at the Cell Membrane with STED and STORM Nanoscopies

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  14. Interactions between the Nicotinic and Endocannabinoid Receptors at the Plasma Membrane

    Article • Membranes, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  15. Fluorescence Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor and Its Associated Lipid Milieu: The Influence of Erwin London’s Methodological Approaches

    Article • The Journal of Membrane Biology, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  16. Nanoscale Sub-Compartmentalization of the Dendritic Spine Compartment

    Article • Biomolecules, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  17. A deep learning-based approach to model anomalous diffusion of membrane proteins: the case of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Briefings in Bioinformatics, October 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  18. Homomeric and Heteromeric α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Health and Some Central Nervous System Diseases

    Article • Membranes, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  19. A deep learning-based approach to model anomalous diffusion of membrane proteins: The case of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • August 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  20. The unfolding palette of COVID-19 multisystemic syndrome and its neurological manifestations

    Article • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health, July 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  21. Cholesterol in myasthenia gravis

    Article • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  22. Structure of channel proteins in Coronaviruses, including the causative agent of COVID-19

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, March 2021, International Union of Crystallography

    Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes, Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  23. Morphological and biochemical repercussions of Toxoplasma gondii infection in a 3D human brain neurospheres model

    Article • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  24. Central Nervous System Targets and Routes for SARS-CoV-2: Current Views and New Hypotheses

    Article • ACS Chemical Neuroscience, August 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  25. The role of nicotinic cholinergic neurotransmission in delusional thinking

    Article • Schizophrenia, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  26. While We Wait for a Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2, Why Not Think About Available Drugs?

    Article • April 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  27. Antibody‐induced crosslinking and cholesterol‐sensitive, anomalous diffusion of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 2019, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  28. Antibody-induced crosslinking and cholesterol-sensitive, anomalous diffusion of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Article • August 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  29. Autoimmune Attack of the Neuromuscular Junction in Myasthenia Gravis: Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and Other Targets

    Article • ACS Chemical Neuroscience, April 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  30. Cholesterol-Recognition Motifs in Membrane Proteins

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  31. Cholesterol modulates acetylcholine receptor diffusion by tuning confinement sojourns and nanocluster stability

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  32. Anandamide Revisited: How Cholesterol and Ceramides Control Receptor-Dependent and Receptor-Independent Signal Transmission Pathways of a Lipid Neurotransmitter

    Article • Biomolecules, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  33. Molecular mechanisms of protein-cholesterol interactions in plasma membranes: Functional distinction between topological (tilted) and consensus (CARC/CRAC) domains

    Article • Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  34. From hopanoids to cholesterol: Molecular clocks of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels

    Article • Progress in Lipid Research, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  35. Diacylglycerol levels modulate the cellular distribution of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  36. A mirror code for protein-cholesterol interactions in the two leaflets of biological membranes

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2016, Nature

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  37. Deficits in cholinergic neurotransmission and their clinical correlates in Parkinson’s disease

    Article • npj Parkinson s Disease, February 2016, Nature

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  38. Transbilayer asymmetry and sphingomyelin composition modulate the preferential membrane partitioning of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in Lo domains

    Article • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, February 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  39. Phylogenetic conservation of protein–lipid motifs in pentameric ligand-gated ion channels

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  40. Resistance to Inhibitors of Cholinesterase 3 (Ric-3) Expression Promotes Selective Protein Associations with the Human α7-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Interactome

    Article • PLOS One, August 2015, PLOS

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  41. Nicotinic α4 Receptor-Mediated Cholinergic Influences on Food Intake and Activity Patterns in Hypothalamic Circuits

    Article • PLOS One, August 2015, PLOS

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  42. Correction to “Conformational Dynamics of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Channel: A 35-ns Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study”

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  43. Prenatal restraint stress decreases the expression of alpha-7 nicotinic receptor in the brain of adult rat offspring

    Article • Stress, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  44. Organization and Dynamics of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Nanoclusters at the Cell Surface

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  45. Functional nicotinic acetylcholine receptor reconstitution in Au(111)-supported thiolipid monolayers

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  46. Cell-surface translational dynamics of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Article • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, November 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  47. Targeting Brain α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Alzheimer’s Disease: Rationale and Current Status

    Article • CNS Drugs, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  48. A Cholesterol Recognition Motif in Human Phospholipid Scramblase 1

    Article • Biophysical Journal, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  49. Corticosterone affects the differentiation of a neuronal cerebral cortex-derived cell line through modulation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Neuroscience, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  50. Transient Cholesterol Effects on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Cell-Surface Mobility

    Article • PLOS One, June 2014, PLOS

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  51. Recent applications of superresolution microscopy in neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  52. To be or not to be in Membrane Domains: Transbilayer Asymmetry and Sphingomyelin-Dependent Preferential Partitioning of the Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  53. Proteomic investigation of human α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor signaling mechanisms

    Article • Biochemical Pharmacology, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  54. Antibody-Induced Acetylcholine Receptor Clusters Inhabit Liquid-Ordered and Liquid-Disordered Domains

    Article • Biophysical Journal, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  55. Synapses tango to the rhythm of Buenos Aires: advances and outlooks, 5th ISN special conference ‘Synapses and dendritic spines in health and disease’

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  56. STED microscopy of living cells - new frontiers in membrane and neurobiology

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, April 2013, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  57. How cholesterol interacts with membrane proteins: an exploration of cholesterol-binding sites including CRAC, CARC, and tilted domains

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  58. The position of the double bond in monounsaturated free fatty acids is essential for the inhibition of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  59. Cholesterol Regulation of Ion Channels and Receptors

    Article • July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  60. Regulation of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor by Cholesterol as a Boundary Lipid

    Article • June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  61. Chaperoning α7 neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  62. A New Putative Cholesterol-Recognition Motif in Transmembrane Proteins

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  63. α7-type acetylcholine receptor localization and its modulation by nicotine and cholesterol in vascular endothelial cells

    Article • Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, October 2011, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  64. Disclosure of cholesterol recognition motifs in transmembrane domains of the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  65. La Antropología como instrumento teórico para el análisis de la educación como práctica social

    Article • Revista Educación, June 2011, Universidad de Costa Rica

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  66. Cholesterol Modulates the Rate and Mechanism of Acetylcholine Receptor Internalization

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, February 2011, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  67. The Anticonvulsive Drug Lamotrigine Blocks Neuronal α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors

    Article • Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, August 2010, American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  68. Statistical Analysis of High-Resolution Light Microscope Images Reveals Effects of Cytoskeleton-Disrupting Drugs on the Membrane Organization of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • The Journal of Membrane Biology, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  69. Partition profile of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in lipid domains upon reconstitution

    Article • Journal of Lipid Research, June 2010, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  70. Cholesterol Effects on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Cellular Aspects

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  71. Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-cholesterol crosstalk in Alzheimer's disease

    Article • FEBS Letters, November 2009, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  72. Sphingolipid/cholesterol regulation of neurotransmitter receptor conformation and function

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  73. Boundary Lipids In The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Microenvironment

    Article • Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  74. Cholesterol modulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor surface mobility

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  75. Ric-3 chaperone-mediated stable cell-surface expression of the neuronal α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in mammalian cells

    Article • Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  76. Modulation Of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Conformational States By Free Fatty Acids And Steroids

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  77. Resolution of complex fluorescence spectra of lipids and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor by multivariate analysis reveals protein-mediated effects on the receptor's immediate lipid microenvironment

    Article • PMC Biophysics, December 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  78. A novel agonist effect on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor exerted by the anticonvulsive drug Lamotrigine

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  79. Endocytosis of cell-surface nicotinic receptor

    Article • Journal of Cell Biology, June 2008, Rockefeller University Press

    Ms Sudha Kumari, Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  80. Modulation of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Conformational State by Free Fatty Acids and Steroids

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2008, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  81. Unbinding of Nicotine from the Acetylcholine Binding Protein:  Steered Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, April 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  82. Ceramides modulate cell-surface acetylcholine receptor levels

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, April 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  83. Mechanics of Channel Gating of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2008, PLOS

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  84. Cholesterol effects on nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  85. Wnt-7a Induces Presynaptic Colocalization of  7-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Hippocampal Neurons

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, May 2007, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  86. Sphingolipids are necessary for nicotinic acetylcholine receptor export in the early secretory pathway

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  87. Conformation-Sensitive Steroid and Fatty Acid Sites in the Transmembrane Domain of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor †

    Article • Biochemistry, March 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  88. Charged amino acid motifs flanking each extreme of the αM4 transmembrane domain are involved in assembly and cell-surface targeting of the muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Research, February 2007, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  89. Lamotrigine is an open-channel blocker of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Neuroreport, January 2007, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  90. Laurdan Studies of Membrane Lipid-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Protein Interactions

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  91. Nanoscale organization of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors revealed by stimulated emission depletion microscopy

    Article • Neuroscience, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  92. Cholesterol depletion activates rapid internalization of submicron-sized acetylcholine receptor domains at the cell membrane

    Article • Molecular Membrane Biology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  93. Blocking of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Ion Channel by Chlorpromazine, a Noncompetitive Inhibitor:  A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, October 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  94. Structure and dynamics of the γM4 transmembrane domain of the acetylcholine receptor in lipid bilayers: insights into receptor assembly and function

    Article • Molecular Membrane Biology, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  95. Conformational Dynamics of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Channel:  A 35-ns Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  96. Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Induces Lateral Segregation of Phosphatidic Acid and Phosphatidylcholine in Reconstituted Membranes †

    Article • Biochemistry, January 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  97. Fluorescence and molecular dynamics studies of the acetylcholine receptor γM4 transmembrane peptide in reconstituted systems

    Article • Molecular Membrane Biology, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  98. The lipid microenvironment influences nicotinic receptor function

    Article • Molecular Membrane Biology, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  99. Structural basis for lipid modulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor function

    Article • Brain Research Reviews, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  100. Cholesterol Modulates the Organization of the γM4 Transmembrane Domain of the Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • Biophysical Journal, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  101. Metabolic cholesterol depletion hinders cell-surface trafficking of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Neuroscience, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  102. Steroid Structural Requirements for Stabilizing or Disrupting Lipid Domains †

    Article • Biochemistry, December 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  103. Lipid−Protein Interactions and Effect of Local Anesthetics in Acetylcholine Receptor-Rich Membranes from Torpedo marmorata Electric Organ †

    Article • Biochemistry, August 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  104. Docosahexaenoic Acid Is Required for the Survival of Rat Retinal Photoreceptors In Vitro

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 2002, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  105. Apoptosis of Retinal Photoreceptors During Development In Vitro: Protective Effect of Docosahexaenoic Acid

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 2002, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  106. Sphingomyelin composition and physical asymmetries in native acetylcholine receptor-rich membranes

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, October 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  107. Identification of threonine 422 in transmembrane domain αM4 of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor as a possible site of interaction with hydrocortisone

    Article • Neuropharmacology, July 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  108. Lipid matters: nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-lipid interactions (Review)

    Article • Molecular Membrane Biology, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  109. Article • Neurochemical Research, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  110. Unique Effects of Different Fatty Acid Species on the Physical Properties of the Torpedo Acetylcholine Receptor Membrane

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 2001, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  111. Steroids differentially inhibit the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Neuroreport, February 2001, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  112. UNESCO Chair of Biophysics and Molecular Neurobiology

    Article • Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, January 2001, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  113. Topography of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Membrane-embedded Domains

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2000, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  114. Nicotinic Receptor Fourth Transmembrane Domain

    Article • Journal of General Physiology, May 2000, Rockefeller University Press

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  115. Effect of organochlorine insecticides on nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-rich membranes

    Article • Neuropharmacology, May 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  116. Nongenomic effects of steroids on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Kidney International, April 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  117. Article • Neurochemical Research, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  118. Article • Neurochemical Research, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  119. Inherited and Experimentally Induced Changes in Gating Kinetics of Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  120. Disclosure of Discrete Sites for Phospholipid and Sterols at the Protein−Lipid Interface in Native Acetylcholine Receptor-Rich Membrane †

    Article • Biochemistry, November 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  121. The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  122. Molecular Modeling of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  123. Introduction: Structure Meets Function at the Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  124. Molecular Pathology of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  125. Ideación suicida y sintomatología obsesivo-compulsiva en una muestra de adolescentes

    Article • Revista de Psicopatología y Psicología Clínica, September 1997, UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  126. Screening Structural-Functional Relationships of Neuropharmacologically Active Organic Compounds at the Nicotonic Acetylcholine Receptor

    Article • Neuropharmacology, March 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  127. Co-distribution of Tropomyosin and α-Actinin With Actin in Psammobatis extenta Electrocytes Brings Out Their Similarity with Muscle Fiber Cytoplasm

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Physiology, February 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  128. Assigning functions to residues in the acetylcholine receptor channel region (Review)

    Article • Molecular Membrane Biology, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  129. Modulation of Muscle Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors by the Glucocorticoid Hydrocortisone. POSSIBLE ALLOSTERIC MECHANISM OF CHANNEL BLOCKADE

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 1996, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  130. Heterologous retinal cultured neurons and cell adhesion molecules induce clustering of acetylcholine receptors and polynucleation in mouse muscle BC3H-1 clonal cell line

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Research, March 1996, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  131. Down-regulation of brain muscarinic cholinergic receptor promoted by diacylglycerols and phorbol ester

    Article • Neurochemical Research, October 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  132. Interaction of merocyanine 540 with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor membranes from Discopyge tschudii electric organ

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, March 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  133. Effect of chemical modification of extracellular histidyl residues on the channel properties of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, June 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  134. Phospholipid metabolism under muscarinic cholinergic stimulation exhibits brain asymmetry

    Article • Neurochemical Research, May 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  135. Gangliosides in acetylcholine receptor-rich membranes fromTorpedo marmorata andDiscopyge tschudii

    Article • Neurochemical Research, May 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  136. Asymmetric distribution and down-regulation of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in rat cerebral cortex

    Article • Neurochemical Research, May 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  137. Hydrocortisone and 11–desoxycortisone modify acetylcholine receptor channel gating

    Article • Neuroreport, February 1993, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  138. Chapter 10 The lipid annulus of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor as a locus of structural-functional interactions

    Article • January 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  139. Structural and functional crosstalk between acetylcholine receptor and its membrane environment

    Article • Molecular Neurobiology, December 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  140. Myogenic differentiation of the muscle clonal cell line BC3H-1 is accompanied by changes in its lipid composition

    Article • Lipids, September 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  141. Polyphoshoinositide synthesis and protein phosphorylation in the plasma membrane from full-grown Bufo arenarum oocytes

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, July 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  142. Blockade of the K+ channel of Chara contraria by Cs+ and tetraethylammonium resembles that of K+ channels in animal cells

    Article • Plant Science, January 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  143. Acetylcholine receptor channel properties are modified by benzyl alcohol

    Article • Neuroreport, November 1991, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  144. Changes in channel properties of acetylcholine receptors during the time course of thiol chemical modifications

    Article • Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, March 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  145. Effect of local anaesthetics on steroid-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor interactions in native membranes of Torpedo marmorata electric organ

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, September 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  146. Phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates in Discopyge tschudii electrocyte membranes

    Article • International Journal of Biochemistry, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  147. Brain asymmetry in phospholipid polar head group metabolism: Parallel in vivo and in vitro studies

    Article • Neurochemical Research, January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  148. Asymmetric distribution of phospholipids in acetylcholine receptor-rich membranes from T. marmorata electric organ

    Article • International Journal of Biochemistry, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  149. The Lipid Environment of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor in Native and Reconstituted Membrane

    Article • Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  150. Ca2+ and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase activity in rat cerebral hemispheres

    Article • Brain Research, February 1988, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  151. Muscle endplate cholinoreceptors

    Article • Pharmacology & Therapeutics, January 1988, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes, Prof. Dr. Francisco J Barrantes

  152. Rapid method for isolation and purification of protoplasts from epidermal tissue ofVicia faba L. leaves

    Article • January 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  153. Lipid Metabolism in Electroplax

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 1987, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  154. Composition of Lipids in Elasmobranch Electric Organ and Acetylcholine Receptor Membranes

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 1987, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  155. Lipid composition of purified transverse tubule membranes isolated from amphibian skeletal muscle

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism, September 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  156. In vitro turnover of oleate and arachidonate in lipids of Discopyge tschudii electrocyte membranes

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, January 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  157. High levels of phosphorylation in minor phospholipids of Discopyge tschudii electrocyte membranes

    Article • Neurochemistry International, January 1987, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  158. Asymmetry of Diacylglycerol Metabolism in Rat Cerebral Hemispheres

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, May 1986, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  159. Correlation of the Molecular Structure with Functional Properties of the Acetylcholine Receptor Protein

    Article • January 1986, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  160. Endogenous asymmetry of rat brain lipids and dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere in free fatty acid response to electroconvulsive shock

    Article • Brain Research, July 1985, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  161. Subcellular localization of creatine kinase in Torpedo electrocytes: association with acetylcholine receptor-rich membranes

    Article • Journal of Cell Biology, April 1985, Rockefeller University Press

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  162. Mixing liquids in microseconds

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, February 1985, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  163. Conversion of acetylcholine receptor dimers to monomers upon depletion of non-receptor peripheral proteins

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, April 1984, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  164. A membrane-associated creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) identified as an acidic species of the non-receptor, peripheralv-proteins inTorpedoacetylcholine receptor membranes

    Article • FEBS Letters, February 1983, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  165. Translational diffusion of acetylcholine receptor (monomeric and dimeric forms) of Torpedo marmorata reconstituted into phospholipid bilayers studied by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

    Article • Biochemistry, November 1982, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  166. Direct structural localization of two toxin-recognition sites on an ACh receptor protein

    Article • Nature, September 1982, Nature

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  167. Effects of periodate oxidation and glycosidases on structural and functional properties of the acetylcholine receptor and the non-receptor, peripheral ν-polypeptide (Mr 43,000)

    Article • Neurochemistry International, January 1982, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  168. Rotational Molecular Dynamics of the Membrane-Bound Acetylcholine Receptor Revealed by Phosphorescene Spectroscopy

    Article • FEBS Journal, November 1981, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  169. Phospholipid chain immobilization and steriod rotational immobilization in acetylcholine receptor-rich membranes from torpedo marmorata

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, June 1981, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  170. Altered physical states of the membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor after affinity labelling

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, July 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  171. Peptide extraction by alkaline treatment is accompanied by rearrangement of the membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor from torpedo marmorata

    Article • FEBS Letters, March 1980, Wiley

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  172. Fast kinetics of antagonist-acetylcholine receptor interactions: A temperature-jump relaxation study

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, February 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  173. Reconstitution of the acetylcholine receptor-channel system in planar bilayer membranes below lipid phase transition

    Article • January 1980, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  174. Interactions of fluorescent cholinergic antagonists with the membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor

    Article • Neurochemistry International, January 1980, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  175. Agonist-mediated changes of the acetylcholine receptor in its membrane environment

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 1978, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  176. Intrinsic fluorescence of the membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor: Its quenching by suberyldicholine

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, September 1976, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  177. 1-Pyrene-butyrylcholine: a fluorescent probe for the cholinergic system.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 1975, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  178. Differences between detergent-extracted acetylcholine receptor and “cholinergic proteolipid”

    Article • Nature, July 1975, Nature

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  179. Purification by affinity chromatography of nicotinic and muscarinic hydrophobic proteins separated by Sephadex LH2O

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, March 1975, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  180. The nicotinic cholinergic receptor: Different compositions evidenced by statistical analysis

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, January 1975, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  181. A comparative study of several membrane proteins from the nervous system

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, September 1973, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  182. Studies on proteolipid proteins from cerebral cortex

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure, April 1972, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  183. Blocking by α-bungarotoxin of the high affinity binding site of the cholinergic receptor proteolipid from Electrophorus

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, February 1972, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  184. Enzymic dissection of cerebral cortex synapses

    Article • Brain Research, October 1970, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  185. Electron microscopy of proteolipid macromolecules from cerebral cortex

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, September 1970, Elsevier

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes

  186. Laurdan Studies of Membrane Lipid-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Protein Interactions

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francisco J. Barrantes