Rondé, P., Dougherty, J.J. and Nichols, R.A. (2000) Functional IP3- and ryanodine-sensitive calcium stores in presynaptic varicosities of NG108-15 (rodent neuroblastoma X glioma hybrid) cells. J. Physiol., 529, 307-319. PMID: 11101642

Nayak, S.V., Rondé, P., Spier, A.D., Lummis, S.C.R. and Nichols, R.A. (2000) Nicotinic receptors co-localize with 5-HT3 serotonin receptors on striatal nerve terminals. Neuropharmacol., 39, 2681-2690.  PMID: 11044738

Rondé, P. and Nichols, R.A. (2001) Postsynaptic target regulates the functional properties of presynaptic 5-HT3 receptors on axonal varicosities of NG108-15 hybrid neuroblastoma cells. Neurosci., 102, 979-987.   PMID: 11182259

Nayak, S.V., Dougherty, J.J., McIntosh, J.M. and Nichols, R.A. (2001) Ca2+ changes induced by different presynaptic nicotinic receptors in separate populations of individual striatal nerve terminals.   J. Neurochem., 76, 1860-1870.   PMID: 11259504

van Hooft, J.A., Dougherty, J.J., Endeman, D., Nichols, R.A. and Wadman, W.J. (2002) Gabapentin inhibits presynaptic Ca2+ influx and synaptic transmission in rat hippocampus and neocortex. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 449, 221-228.  PMID: 12167463

Dougherty, J.J., Wu, J. and Nichols, R.A. (2003) Beta amyloid regulation of presynaptic nicotinic receptors in rat hippocampus and neocortex. J. Neurosci., 23, 6740-6747.  PMID: 12890766

Nichols, R.A., Dougherty, J.J., Choi, C.H. and Wu, J. (2004) Beta amyloid regulation of murine presynaptic nicotinic receptors. Neurobiol. Aging, 25, 392.

Wu, J., Dougherty, J.J. and Nichols, R.A. (2006) Dopamine receptor regulation of Ca2+ levels in individual nerve terminals from rat striatum: comparison of presynaptic D1-like and D2-like receptors. J. Neurochem., 98. 481-494.  PMID: 16805841

Nichols, R.A., Dengler, A., Nakagawa, E., Bashkin, M., Paul, B.T., Wu, J. and Khan, G.M. (2007) A constitutive, TRP-like Ca2+ influx pathway in presynaptic nerve endings independent of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels and Na+/Ca2+ exchange. J. Biol. Chem., 282, 36102-36111.  PMID: 17928293

Wu, J., Khan, G.M. and Nichols, R.A. (2007) Dopamine release in prefrontal cortex in response to beta amyloid activation of alpha7 nicotinic receptors. Brain Res., 1182, 82-89.  PMID: 17935702

Dougherty, J.J., Wu, J., Mehta, T., Brown, B. and Nichols, R.A. (2008) Chronic nicotine alters nicotinic receptor-induced presynaptic Ca2+ responses in isolated nerve terminals, Neurochem. Res., 33, 1106-1112.  PMID: 18095155

Mehta, T.K., Dougherty, J.J., Wu, J., Choi, C.H., Ghous, G.M and Nichols, R.A. (2009) Defining presynaptic nicotinic receptors regulated by beta amyloid in mouse cortex and hippocampus with receptor null mutants, J. Neurochem., 109, 1452-1458. PMID: 19457164

Dougherty, J.J. and Nichols, R.A. (2009) Cross-desensitization between colocalized nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and 5-HT3 receptors on presynaptic nerve terminals. Acta Pharmacol. Sinica, 30, 788-794 (invited contribution). PMID: 19498419

Khan, G.M., Tong, M., Jhun, M., Arora, K. and Nichols, R.A. (2010) Beta-Amyloid activates presynaptic alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors reconstituted into a model nerve cell system: involvement of lipid rafts. Eur J Neurosci. 31, 788-96. PMID: 20374280

Tong, M., White, M., Arora, K., and Nichols, R.A. Role of critical aromatic residues in the ligand-binding domain of alpha7 nicotinic receptors for the agonist-like action of beta amyloid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, submitted.

Khan, G.M., Wang, H.Y., Puzzo, D., Arancio, O. and Nichols, R.A. Beta amyloid: neuromodulator and toxic fragment, in prep.

Yang, K., Buhlman, L., Khan, G.M., Nichols, R.A., Jin, G., McIntosh, J.M., Whiteaker, P., Lukas, R.J. and Wu. J. (2010) Functional alpha6-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on presynaptic GABAergic boutons mediate cholinergic modulation of VTA dopamine neurons. J. Neurosci., in prep.