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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
18070
World Ranking
8134
National Ranking
3681

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Best Publications

  • Imaging actin and dynamin recruitment during invagination of single clathrin-coated pits.

    Christien J. Merrifield;Morris E. Feldman;Lei Wan;Wolfhard Almers

  • The exocytotic event in chromaffin cells revealed by patch amperometry

    Almudena C. Albillos;Gregor Dernick;Heinz Horstmann;Wolfhard Almers

  • Transport, capture and exocytosis of single synaptic vesicles at active zones.

    D. Zenisek;J. A. Steyer;W. Almers

  • Transport, docking and exocytosis of single secretory granules in live chromaffin cells

    Jürgen A. Steyer;Heinz Horstmann;Wolfhard Almers

  • Gating currents and charge movements in excitable membranes.

    Wolfhard Almers

  • Currents through the fusion pore that forms during exocytosis of a secretory vesicle.

    L. J. Breckenridge;W. Almers

  • Endocytic vesicles move at the tips of actin tails in cultured mast cells.

    Christien J. Merrifield;Christien J. Merrifield;Stephen E. Moss;Christoph Ballestrem;Beat A. Imhof

  • The Ca signal from fura-2 loaded mast cells depends strongly on the method of dye-loading.

    W. Almers;E. Neher

  • Secretory granules are recaptured largely intact after stimulated exocytosis in cultured endocrine cells

    Justin W. Taraska;David Perrais;Mica Ohara-Imaizumi;Shinya Nagamatsu

  • Docked granules, the exocytic burst, and the need for ATP hydrolysis in endocrine cells

    Thomas D. Parsons;J. R. Coorssen;Heinz Horstmann;Wolfhard Almers

  • Calcium-triggered exocytosis and endocytosis in an isolated presynaptic cell: capacitance measurements in saccular hair cells.

    Thomas D. Parsons;David Lenzi;Wolfhard Almers;William M. Roberts

  • Final steps in exocytosis observed in a cell with giant secretory granules

    L J Breckenridge;W Almers

  • Rhythmic exocytosis stimulated by GnRH-induced calcium oscillations in rat gonadotropes

    Amy Tse;Frederick W. Tse;Wolfhard Almers;Bertil Hille

  • STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF FUSION PORES IN EXOCYTOSIS AND ECTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE FUSION

    Manfred Lindau;Wolfhard Almers

  • Calcium depletion in frog muscle tubules: the decline of calcium current under maintained depolarization.

    W Almers;R Fink;P T Palade

  • Dihydropyridine receptors in muscle are voltage-dependent but most are not functional calcium channels.

    Lawrence M. Schwartz;Lawrence M. Schwartz;Edwin W. McCleskey;Edwin W. McCleskey;Wolfhard Almers

  • Neural Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome Protein (N-WASP) and the Arp2/3 complex are recruited to sites of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in cultured fibroblasts.

    Christien J. Merrifield;Britta Qualmann;Michael M. Kessels;Wolfhard Almers

  • Properties of the fusion pore that forms during exocytosis of a mast cell secretory vesicle.

    A.E. Spruce;L.J. Breckenridge;A.K. Lee;W. Almers

  • Tracking Single Secretory Granules in Live Chromaffin Cells by Evanescent-Field Fluorescence Microscopy

    Jürgen A. Steyer;Wolfhard Almers

  • Ca2+-triggered peptide secretion in single cells imaged with green fluorescent protein and evanescent-wave microscopy.

    Thorsten Lang;Irene Wacker;Jürgen Steyer;Christoph Kaether

Frequent Co-Authors

Edwin W. McCleskey
Edwin W. McCleskey Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Thierry Soldati
Thierry Soldati University of Geneva
Bertil Hille
Bertil Hille University of Washington
Clay M. Armstrong
Clay M. Armstrong University of Pennsylvania
Michael D. Cahalan
Michael D. Cahalan University of California, Irvine
Clay M. Armstrong
Clay M. Armstrong University of Pennsylvania
Stephen E. Moss
Stephen E. Moss University College London
Wieland B. Huttner
Wieland B. Huttner Max Planck Society
Robert Elde
Robert Elde University of Minnesota
George J Augustine
George J Augustine Nanyang Technological University

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