Dr. Steele’s Publications:

Church RL, Wang JH, and Steele E.  The human lens intrinsic membrane protein
MP70 (Cx50): Clonal analysis and chromosomal mapping, Curr. Eye Res. 1995;14:215-221.

Elsas LJ, Langley S, Steele E, Evinger J, Fridovich-Keil JL, Brown A, Singh R, Fernhoff
P, Hjelm LN, and Dembure PP.  Galactosemia: A strategy to identify new biochemical phenotypes and molecular genotypes, Am. J. Hum. Genet. 1995;56:630-639.

Steele Jr EC, Kerscher S, Lyon MF, Glenister PH, Favor J, Wang JH, and Church RL
Identification of a mutation in the MP19 gene, Lim2, in the cataractous mouse mutant, To3, Mol. Vis. 1997;3:5 http://www.emory.edu/molvis/v3/steele.

Steele EC, Lyon MF, Glenister, PH, Guillot PV, and Church RL . Identification of a mutation in the connexin 50 (Cx50) gene of the No2 cataractous mouse mutant. In Gap Junctions. Edited by R. Werner. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ISO Press, 1998, Pp.289-293.

Steele Jr EC, Lyon MF, Favor J, Guillot PV, Boyd Y, and Church RL. A mutation in the connexin 50 (Cx50) gene is a candidate for the No2 mouse cataract, Curr. Eye Res. 1998;17:883-889.

Steele Jr EC, Wang JH, Lo WK, Saperstein DA, Li XL, and Church RL.  Lim2To3 transgenic mice establish a causative relationship between the mutation identified in the
Lim2 gene and cataractogenesis in the To3 mouse mutant, Mol. Vis. 2000;6:85-94.
http://www.molvis.org/molvis/v6/a12/.

Steele EC Jr, Chen X, Iuvone PM, MacLeish PR.  Imaging of Ca2+ dynamics within the presynaptic terminals of salamander rod photoreceptors. J. Neurophysiol. 2005;94:4544-53. Epub 2005 Aug 17.  http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/94/6/4544.

Steele EC Jr., Chen X, and MacLeish PR.  Fluoxetine inhibits calcium-activated currents of salamander photoreceptor somata and presynaptic terminals via modulation of intracellular calcium dynamics. Mol. Vis. 2005;11:1200-1210.
http://www.molvis.org/molvis/v11/a137/

Xiao H, Chen X, and Steele EC Jr. Abundant L-type calcium channel Cav1.3 (α1D) subunit mRNA is detected in rod photoreceptors of the mouse retina via in situ
hybridization. Mol. Vis. 2007; 13:764-771. http://www.molvis.org/molvis/v13/a83/

Steele E, Guo Q, Namura S. Retinal ischemia induced by intraluminal internal carotid
artery occlusion in mice. Stroke. Manuscript accepted Nov. 28, 2007.

 

Steele EC Jr. Molecular and functional analysis of P2X and P2Y purinergic receptor expression in the rat Mueller (rMC-1) cell line. Manuscript in preparation for submission.

Steele EC Jr., Chen X, Pitts S, MacLeish PR. Purkinje cell degeneration (pcd) mice lacking Nna1 exhibit normal regenerative capacity following sciatic nerve crush. Submitted to J Peripheral Nervous Sys January 2008.