Publications

1.     Rodriguez-Munoz DL, Jaidar O, Palomero-Rivero M, Arias-Garcia MA, Arbuthnott GW and Lopez-Huerta VG# (2021) In vivo wireless optogenetic control of skilled motor behavior. JoVE.

2.     Lopez-Huerta VG#, Nakano Y, Garcia-Munoz M and Arbuthnott GW# (2021) Striatal bilateral control of forelimb skilled movement. Cell Reports, 34 (3) 1-18.

3.     Susco GS, Arias-García MA, López-Huerta VG, Beccard A, Bara AM, Moffitt J, Korn J, Fu Z, Barrett LE (2020) FMR1 loss in a human stem cell model reveals early changes to intrinsic membrane excitability. Developmental Biology. 468 (1–2) 93-100.

4.     Li Y*, Lopez-Huerta VG*, Adiconis X, Levandowski K, Choi S, Simmons SK, Arias-Garcia MA, Guo B, Yao AY, Blosser TR, Wimmer RD, Aida T, Atamian A, Naik T, Sun X, Bi D, Malhotra D, Hession CC, Shema R, Gomes M, … Feng G. (2020). Distinct subnetworks of the thalamic reticular nucleus. Nature, 583(7818), 819–824.

5. Ghoshal A, Uygun DS, Yang L, McNally JM, Lopez-Huerta VG, Arias-Garcia MA, Baez-Nieto D, Allen A, Fitzgeral M, Choi S, Zhnag Q, Hope JM, Yan K, Mao X, Nicholson TB, Imaizumi K, Fu Z, Feng G, Brown RE, Strecker RE, Purcell SM and Pan JQ. (2020). Effects of a patient-derived de novo coding alteration of CACNA1I in mice connect a schizophrenia risk gene with sleep spindle deficits. Translational Psychiatry. 10 (1), 1-12.

6.     Piatkevich KD*, Bensussen S*, Tseng H*, Shroff SN, Lopez-Huerta VG, Park D, Jung EE, Shemesh O, Straub C, Gritton H, Romano M, Sabatini BL, Fu Z, Han X, Boyden ES. (2019). Population imaging of neural activity in awake behaving mice. Nature. 574:413-417.

7.     Jaidar O, Carrillo-Reid L, Lopez-Huerta VG, Nakano Y, Garcia-Munoz M, Hernandez A, Lazarus M, Bargas J and Arbuthnott GW. (2019). Synchronized activation of striatal direct and indirect pathways underelies the behavior in unilateral dopamine-depleted animals. EJN. 49 (11):1512-1528.

8.     Krol A*, Lopez-Huerta VG*, Corey TEC, Ting JJ, Deisseroth K, Feng G. (2019). Two eARCHT3.0 lines for optogenetic silencing of dopaminergic and serotonergic neuron function. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 13:1-4.

9. Amamoto R, Lopez-Huerta VG, Takahashi E, Dai G, Grant AK, Fu Z, Arlotta P. (2016). Adult axolotls can regenerate original neuronal diversity in response to brain injury. Elife. 9; 5. pii: e13998.

10.  Lopez-Huerta VG, Nakano Y, Bausenwein J, Jaidar O, Lazarus M, Cherassse Y, Garcia-Munoz M and Arbuthnott GW. (2016). The neostriatum: two entities, one structure? Brain Structure and Function. 221(3):1737-49.

11.  Barroso J, Herrera-Valdez MA, Lopez-Huerta VG, Galarraga E and Bargas J. (2015). Diverse short-term dynamics of inhibitory synapses converging on striatal projection neurons: differential changes in a rodent model of Parkinson’s disease. Neural plasticity. 2015:573543.

12.  Carrillo-Reid LC*, Lopez-Huerta VG*, Garcia-Munoz M, Theiss S and Arbuthnott GW. (2015). Cell assembly signatures defined by short term synaptic plasticity in cortical networks. International Journal of Neural Systems. 25(7):1550026.

13.  Garcia-Munoz M*, Lopez-Huerta  VG* and Arbuthnott GW. (2014). Extrasynaptic Glutamate NMDA Receptors: Key Players in Striatal Function. Neuropharmacology. 89: 54-63. 

14.  Lopez-Huerta VG, Carrillo-Reid L, Galarraga E, Tapia D, Fiordelisio T, Drucker-Collin R and Bargas J. (2013). The balance of feedback transmission is disrupted in a model of Parkinsonism. J Neuroscience. 33(11):4964-4975.

15.  Lopez-Huerta VG, Bargas J and Galarraga E. (2012). Striatal presynaptic modulation by somatostatin is altered in a rodent model of Parkinsonism. J Neurophysiology. 108(4):1032-1043. 

16.  Lopez-Huerta VG, Tecuapetla F, Guzmán JN, Bargas J. and Galarraga P. (2008). Presynaptic modulation by somatostatin in the neostriatum. Neurochemical Research. 33(8):1452-8.