Publications

Current Preprints

  1. Kerstein PC*, Santana Agreda Y, Curran BM, Ma L, Wright KM. “Gbx2 controls amacrine cell dendrite stratification through Robo1/2 receptors.” (2023) bioRxiv. Preprint

Selected Publications

  1. Kerstein PC, Leffler J, Sivyer B, Taylor WR, Wright KM. “Gbx2 identifies two amacrine cell subtypes with distinct molecular, morphological, and physiological properties.” (2020) Cell Rep. 33(7):108382.
  2. Schaser AJ, Stackhouse TL, Weston LJ, Kerstein PC, Osterberg VR, López CS, Dickson DW, Luk KC, Meshul CK, Woltjer RL, Unni VK. “Trans-synaptic and retrograde axonal spread of Lewy pathology following pre-formed fibril injection in an in vivo A53T alpha-synuclein mouse model of synucleinopathy.”  (2020) Acta Neuropathol Commun. 8(1):150.
  3. O’Sullivan ML, Punal VM, Kerstein PC, Brzezinski JA, Glaser T, Wright KM, Kay JN.  “Astrocytes Follow Ganglion Cell Axons to Establish an Angiogenic Template During Retinal Development.”  (2017) Glia. 65(10):1697-1716.
  4. Kerstein PC, Patel KM, Gomez TM. “Calpain cleavage of FAK and Talin regulates adhesion dynamics during axon guidance.” (2017) J. Neurosci. 37(6): 1568-1580. 
  5. Kerstein PC, Nichol RH, Gomez TM. Mechanochemical regulation of growth cone motility.” (2015) Front. Cell. Neurosci. 9:244.
  6. Lehto SG, Weyer AD, Zhang M, Youngblood BD, Wang J, Wang W, Kerstein PC, Davis C, Wild KD, Stucky CL, Gavva NR.  “AMG2850, a potent and selective TRPM8 antagonist, is not effective in rat models of inflammatory mechanical hypersensitivity and neuropathic tactile allodynia.” (2015) Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 388(4):465-76.
  7. Kerstein PC, Jacques-Fricke BT, Rengifo J, Mogen BJ, Williams JC, Gottlieb PA, Sachs F, Gomez TM.  Mechanosensitive TRPC1 channels promote calpain proteolysis of talin in filopodia to regulate spinal axon outgrowth.” (2013) J. Neurosci 33(1): 273-285.
  8. Hillary CA, Kerstein PC, Vilceanu D, Barabas M, Retherford D, Brandow AM, Wandersee NJ, Stucky CL.  “Mechanical hypersensitivity and nociceptor sensitization in murine sickle cell disease are mediated by TRPV1.” (2011) Blood. 118(12):3376-83.
  9. Kerstein PC, del Camino D, Moran MM, Stucky CL.  “Pharmacological blockade of TRPA1 inhibits mechanical firing in nociceptors.” (2009) Mol Pain. 5:19.