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Raju Metherate is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, United States, focusing their research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several related subfields including Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Speech and Hearing, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's research addresses multiple main topics, particularly in hearing and auditory functions. These topics include Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, and Genetics; Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study; Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling; Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation; Noise Effects and Management; Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research; and Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Raju Metherate has contributed to several recent research papers reflecting these thematic focuses, such as:

  • Task-dependent effects of nicotine treatment on auditory performance in young-adult and elderly human nonsmokers, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Alpha-2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors regulate spectral integration in auditory cortex, 2024, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Nicotine Enhances Amplitude and Consistency of Timing of Responses to Acoustic Trains in A1, 2021, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Task-dependent effects of nicotine treatment on auditory performance in young-adult and elderly human nonsmokers, 2021, Research Square (Research Square)

The venues in which their work appears include Frontiers in Neural Circuits, Scientific Reports, and Research Square, highlighting a preference for journals focused on neural circuitry and open-access platforms.

Raju Metherate frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among them:

  • Shuping Sun
  • Michelle R. Kapolowicz
  • Matthew L. Richardson
  • Fan-Gang Zeng
  • Irakli Intskirveli

Best Publications

  • Triple-Transgenic Model of Alzheimer's Disease with Plaques and Tangles: Intracellular Aβ and Synaptic Dysfunction

    Salvatore Oddo;Antonella Caccamo;Jason D. Shepherd;M. Paul Murphy

  • Cellular bases of neocortical activation: modulation of neural oscillations by the nucleus basalis and endogenous acetylcholine

    Raju Metherate;Charles L. Cox;John H. Ashe

  • Functional role of GABA in cat primary somatosensory cortex: shaping receptive fields of cortical neurons.

    R. W. Dykes;P. Landry;R. Metherate;T. P. Hicks

  • A Role for Synaptic Zinc in Activity-Dependent Aβ Oligomer Formation and Accumulation at Excitatory Synapses

    Atul Deshpande;Hideki Kawai;Raju Metherate;Charles G. Glabe

  • Intracortical pathways determine breadth of subthreshold frequency receptive fields in primary auditory cortex.

    Simranjit Kaur;Ronit Lazar;Raju Metherate

  • Auditory thalamocortical synaptic transmission in vitro.

    Scott J. Cruikshank;Heather J. Rose;Raju Metherate

  • Nicotine Selectively Enhances NMDA Receptor-Mediated Synaptic Transmission during Postnatal Development in Sensory Neocortex

    V B Aramakis;R Metherate

  • Cholinergic modulation of responses to single tones produces tone-specific receptive field alterations in cat auditory cortex.

    Raju Metherate;Norman M. Weinberger

  • Differential modulation of auditory thalamocortical and intracortical synaptic transmission by cholinergic agonist.

    Candace Y Hsieh;Scott J Cruikshank;Raju Metherate

  • Nucleus basalis stimulation facilitates thalamocortical synaptic transmission in the rat auditory cortex

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  • Acetylcholine permits long-term enhancement of neuronal responsiveness in cat primary somatosensory cortex.

    R. Metherate;N. Tremblay;R.W. Dykes

  • Nicotinic control of axon excitability regulates thalamocortical transmission.

    Hideki Kawai;Ronit Lazar;Raju Metherate

  • The effects of acetylcholine on response properties of cat somatosensory cortical neurons.

    Raju Metherate;N. Tremblay;R. W. Dykes

  • Transient and prolonged effects of acetylcholine on responsiveness of cat somatosensory cortical neurons.

    Raju Metherate;N. Tremblay;R. W. Dykes

  • Ionic flux contributions to neocortical slow waves and nucleus basalis- mediated activation: whole-cell recordings in vivo

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  • Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in sensory cortex.

    Raju Metherate

  • Spectral integration in primary auditory cortex: laminar processing of afferent input, in vivo and in vitro.

    S. Kaur;H.J. Rose;R. Lazar;K. Liang

  • Auditory thalamocortical transmission is reliable and temporally precise.

    Heather J. Rose;Raju Metherate

  • A critical period for nicotine-induced disruption of synaptic development in rat auditory cortex.

    V. Bess Aramakis;Candace Y. Hsieh;Frances M. Leslie;Raju Metherate

  • Basal forebrain stimulation modifies auditory cortex responsiveness by an action at muscarinic receptors

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  • Thalamocortical inputs trigger a propagating envelope of gamma-band activity in auditory cortex in vitro.

    Raju Metherate;Scott J. Cruikshank

  • Spectral integration in auditory cortex: mechanisms and modulation.

    Raju Metherate;Simranjit Kaur;Hideki Kawai;Ronit Lazar

  • Parvalbumin and calbindin are differentially distributed within primary and secondary subregions of the mouse auditory forebrain.

    S.J Cruikshank;H.P Killackey;R Metherate

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman M. Weinberger
Norman M. Weinberger University of California, Irvine
Frances M. Leslie
Frances M. Leslie University of California, Irvine
David M. Diamond
David M. Diamond University of South Florida
Antonella Caccamo
Antonella Caccamo University of Messina
Todd E. Golde
Todd E. Golde Emory University
Mark P. Mattson
Mark P. Mattson Johns Hopkins University
Salvatore Oddo
Salvatore Oddo Arizona State University
Bradley T. Christian
Bradley T. Christian University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marcelo A. Wood
Marcelo A. Wood University of California, Irvine

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