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Chen RY, Evans RC. (2024) Comparing tonic and phasic dendritic calcium in cholinergic pedunculopontine neurons and dopaminergic substantia nigra neurons. Eur J Neurosci. 2024 Feb 21. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16281. PMID: 38383047. 

Chapman DP, Vicini S, Burns MP, Evans RC. (2023) Single neuron modeling identifies potassium channel modulation as potential target for repetitive head impacts. Neuroinformatics. 2023 Jun 9. DOI: 10.1007/s12021-023-09633-7. PMID: 37294503. [Model Available on ModelDB]

Evans RC. (2022) Dendritic involvement in inhibition and disinhibition of vulnerable dopaminergic neurons in healthy and pathological conditions. Neurobiology of Disease. 9 July 2022 Volume 172, 105815 PMID: 35820645 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105815

Evans RC, Twedell EL, Zhu M, Ascencio J, Zhang R, Khaliq ZM. (2020) Functional dissection of basal ganglia inhibitory input onto SNc dopaminergic neurons. Cell Rep. 2020;32(11):108156 PMID: 32937133

Wu J, Kung J, Dong J, Chang L, Xie C, Habib A, Hawes SL, Yang N, Chen V, Liu Z, Evans RC, Liang B, Sun L, Ding J, Yu J, Saez-Atienzar S, Tang B, Khaliq Z, Lin D, Le W, Cai H. (2019) Distinct connectivity and functionality of Aldehyde  Dehydrogenase 1a1-positive nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons in motor learning. Cell Rep. 30 Jul 2019; 28(5):1167-1181.e7.

Evans RC, Zhu M, Khaliq ZM. (2017) Dopamine Inhibition Differentially Controls Excitability of Substantia Nigra Dopamine Neuron Subpopulations through T-Type Calcium Channels. J Neurosci. 29 Mar 2017, 37(13):3704-3720.

Tarfa R, Evans RC, Khaliq ZM. (2017) Enhanced sensitivity to hyperpolarizing inhibition in mesoaccumbal relative to nigrostriatal dopamine neuron subpopulations. J. Neurosci. 22 Mar 2017, 37(12):3311-3330. [Model Available on ModelDB]

Evans RC, Blackwell KT. (2015) Calcium: Amplitude, Duration, or Location? Biol. Bull. Feb;228(1):75-83

Hawes S, Evans RC, Unruh BA, Benkert E, Gillani F, Dumas T, Blackwell KT. (2015) Multi-modal plasticity in dorsal striatum while learning a lateralized navigation task.  J. Neurosci 22 July 2015, 35(29):10535-10549.

Evans RC, Herin GA, Hawes S, Blackwell KT. (2015) Calcium dependent inactivation of calcium channels in the medial striatum increases at eye opening. J. Neurophysiol Apr;113(7):2979-86. 

Evans, RC, Maniar YM, Blackwell KT. (2013) Dynamic Modulation of Spike Timing Dependent Calcium Influx During Cortico-striatal Upstates.  J Neurophysiol Oct;110(7): 1631-1645 [Model Available on ModelDB]

Evans RC, Morera-Herreras T, Cui Y, Du K, Sheehan T, Hellgren Kotaleski J, Venance L, Blackwell, KT. (2012) The Effects of NMDA Subunit Composition on Calcium Influx and Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons. PLoS Comput Biol 8(4): e1002493 [Model Available on Model DB]