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Toni Schneider is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research spans several fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Within these disciplines, their work focuses on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Aging.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of important areas, including:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Connexins and lens biology
  • Spaceflight effects on biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Toni Schneider include:

  • "Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles" (2021), published in Cell Stem Cell
  • "Synapse and Active Zone Assembly in the Absence of Presynaptic Ca2+ Channels and Ca2+ Entry" (2020), published in Neuron
  • "Microgravity-induced stress mechanisms in human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes" (2022), published in iScience
  • "Cav2.3 R-type calcium channels: from its discovery to pathogenic de novo CACNA1E variants: a historical perspective" (2020), published in Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
  • "β2-subunit alternative splicing stabilizes Cav2.3 Ca2+ channel activity during continuous midbrain dopamine neuron-like activity" (2022), published in eLife

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Toni Schneider include:

  • Felix Neumaier
  • Jürgen Hescheler
  • Walid Albanna
  • Argyris Papantonis
  • Serdar Alpdogan

The scientist's publications have appeared in several venues, among those most frequently publishing their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Stem Cell
  • Neuron
  • iScience
  • Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology

Best Publications

  • Cloning and Expression of a Novel Member of the Low Voltage-Activated T-Type Calcium Channel Family

    Jung-Ha Lee;Asif N. Daud;Leanne L. Cribbs;Antonio E. Lacerda

  • Serum antibodies to L-type calcium channels in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    R G Smith;S Hamilton;F Hofmann;T Schneider

  • The amino terminus of a calcium channel beta subunit sets rates of channel inactivation independently of the subunit's effect on activation.

    Riccrdo Olcese;Ning Qin;Toni Schneider;Alan Neely

  • Functional specialization of presynaptic Cav2.3 Ca2+ channels.

    Dirk Dietrich;Timo Kirschstein;Maria Kukley;Alexej Pereverzev

  • CaV2.3 calcium channels control second-phase insulin release.

    Xingjun Jing;Dai-Qing Li;Charlotta S. Olofsson;Albert Salehi

  • Comparison of the Ca2 + currents induced by expression of three cloned alpha1 subunits, alpha1G, alpha1H and alpha1I, of low-voltage-activated T-type Ca2 + channels.

    Udo Klöckner;Jung-Ha Lee;Leanne L. Cribbs;Asif Daud

  • Regulation of the L-type calcium channel

    Franz Hofmann;Wolfgang Nastainczyk;Axel Röhrkasten;Toni Schneider

  • Identification of the site of interaction of the dihydropyridine channel blockers nitrendipine and azidopine with the calcium-channel alpha 1 subunit.

    S Regulla;T Schneider;W Nastainczyk;H E Meyer

  • Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles

    Elke Gabriel;Walid Albanna;Walid Albanna;Giovanni Pasquini;Anand Ramani

  • Calcium channels: Structure, function, and classification

    Edward Perez-Reyes;Toni Schneider

  • Electrocorticographic and deep intracerebral EEG recording in mice using a telemetry system.

    Marco Weiergräber;Margit Henry;Jürgen Hescheler;Neil Smyth

  • Disturbances in Glucose-Tolerance, Insulin-Release, and Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia upon Disruption of the Cav2.3 (α1E) Subunit of Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Channels

    Alexey Pereverzev;Marina Mikhna;Rolf Vajna;Cornelia Gissel

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient antibodies label Ca2+ channel α1 subunit

    Fumiharu Kimura;R. Glenn Smith;Osvaldo Delbono;Okot Nyormoi

  • An introduction to the pathophysiology of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

    Jasper H. van Lieshout;Maxine Dibué-Adjei;Jan F. Cornelius;Philipp J. Slotty

  • Functional coupling between mGluR1 and Cav3.1 T-type calcium channels contributes to parallel fiber-induced fast calcium signaling within Purkinje cell dendritic spines.

    Michael E. Hildebrand;Philippe Isope;Taisuke Miyazaki;Toshitaka Nakaya

  • R-type Ca(2+)-channel-evoked CICR regulates glucose-induced somatostatin secretion.

    Quan Zhang;Martin Bengtsson;Chris Partridge;S Albert Salehi

  • The CaV2.3 Ca2+ channel subunit contributes to R-Type Ca2+ currents in murine hippocampal and neocortical neurones

    Dmitry Sochivko;Alexey Pereverzev;Neil Smyth;Cornelia Gissel

  • Ablation of Ca(v)2.3 / E-type voltage-gated calcium channel results in cardiac arrhythmia and altered autonomic control within the murine cardiovascular system.

    Marco Weiergräber;Margit Henry;Michael Südkamp;Ernst-Rainer de Vivie

  • Altered Seizure Susceptibility in Mice Lacking the Cav2.3 E-type Ca2+ Channel

    Marco Weiergräber;Margit Henry;Andreas Krieger;Marcel Kamp

  • Full-length myotonin protein kinase (72 kDa) displays serine kinase activity.

    L Timchenko;W Nastainczyk;T Schneider;B Patel

  • Functional coupling between ‘R-type’ Ca2+ channels and insulin secretion in the insulinoma cell line INS-1

    Rolf Vajna;Udo Klöckner;Alexey Pereverzev;Marco Weiergräber

  • Hippocampal seizure resistance and reduced neuronal excitotoxicity in mice lacking the Cav2.3 E/R-type voltage-gated calcium channel.

    Marco Weiergräber;Margit Henry;Kayalvizhi Radhakrishnan;Jiirgen Hescheler

  • Quantitative regional and ultrastructural localization of the Ca(v)2.3 subunit of R-type calcium channel in mouse brain.

    Laxmi Kumar Parajuli;Chikako Nakajima;Akos Kulik;Ko Matsui;Ko Matsui

  • Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles

    Elke Gabriel;Walid Albanna;Walid Albanna;Giovanni Pasquini;Giovanni Pasquini;Anand Ramani

Frequent Co-Authors

Birgit Liss
Birgit Liss University of Ulm
Slobodan M. Todorovic
Slobodan M. Todorovic University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Janine Altmüller
Janine Altmüller University of Cologne
Rüdiger Köhling
Rüdiger Köhling University of Rostock
Heinz Beck
Heinz Beck University of Bonn
Peter Kloppenburg
Peter Kloppenburg University of Cologne
Richard Wade-Martins
Richard Wade-Martins University of Oxford
Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg
Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg Leiden University Medical Center
Christian Kubisch
Christian Kubisch Universität Hamburg
Akos Kulik
Akos Kulik University of Freiburg

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