Publications

2019

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2016

• de Souza C.F, Nivison-Smith, L, Christie D, Polkinghorne P, Mcghee C, Kalloniatis M, Acosta M.L. Macromolecular markers in normal human retina and applications to human retinal disease – Exp. Eye Res. in press 2016.

• Kalloniatis M, Nivison-Smith L, Chua J, Acosta M.L., Fletcher E.L. Using the rd1 mouse to understand functional and anatomical retinal remodelling and treatment implications in retinitis pigmentosa: a review. Exp Eye Res. 2015 oct 30. pii: s0014-4835(15)30057-9. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2015.10.019.
• Danesh-Meyer H.V., Zhang J, Acosta M.L., Rupenthal I.D., Green C.R. Connexin43 in retinal injury and disease. Prog Retin. Eye Res. 2015 oct 7. pii: s1350-9462(15)00071-3.
• Chang L. Y-L., Black J., Acosta M.L. Window to the central nervous system- advanced retinal imaging for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Austin J. Clin. Neurol. 2015; 2(3):1027-1030.
• Du L.Y., Chang L Y-L., Ardiles A.O., Tapia-Rojas C, Araya J, Inestrosa N.C., Palacios A.G., Acosta M.L. Alzheimer’s disease-related protein expression in the retina of Octodon degus. Plos one. 2015 aug 12;10(8):e0135499. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135499.
• Evans A.B., Acosta M.L., Bolstad K.S.. Retinal development and ommin pigment in the cranchiid squid teuthowenia pellucida (cephalopoda: oegopsida). Plos one  2015 may 13;10(5):e0123453. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123453.

• Nivison-Smith L, Kalloniatis M, O’Brien B.J., Truong M, Guo C.X., Acosta M.L. Vinpocetine modulates metabolic activity and function during retinal ischemia. Am. J. Physiol- Cell Physiol. 308, (9), pc737-c749, 2015, 10.1152/ajpcell.00291.2014.
• Corfield JR, Parsons S, Harimoto Y, Acosta ML. Retinal Anatomy Of The New Zealand Kiwi: Structural Traits Consistent With Their Nocturnal Behavior. Anat Rec (Hoboken, N.J.: 2007), 298, (4), P771-779, 2015, 10.1002/Ar.23080
• Nivison-Smith L, Zhu Y, Whatham A, Bui BV, Fletcher EL, Acosta ML, Kalloniatis M. (2014). Sildenafil alters retinal function in mouse carriers of Retinitis Pigmentosa. Experimental eye research. 128: 43-56 doi:10.1016/j.exer.2014.08.014
• Nivison-Smith L, Acosta ML, Misra S, O’Brien BJ, Kalloniatis M. (2014). Vinpocetine regulates cation channel permeability of inner retinal neurons in the ischaemic retina. Neurochem Int, 66, 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.neuint.2014.01.003
• Guo CX, Tan H, Green CR, Danesh-Meyer HD, Acosta ML. Gap junction proteins in the light-damaged albino rat. Molecular Vision. 2014; 20:670-682.
• Nivison-Smith L, Acosta ML, Misra S, O’Brien BJ, Kalloniatis M. Vinpocetine regulates cation channel permeability of inner retinal neurons in the ischaemic retina.  Neurochem Int. 2014 Jan;66:1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.neuint.2014.01.003. Epub 2014 Jan 9.

• Chang LY, Lowe J, Ardiles A, Lim J, Grey AC, Robertson K, Danesh-Meyer H, Palacios AG, Acosta ML.  Alzheimer’s disease in the human eye. Clinical tests that identify ocular and visual information processing deficit as biomarkers. Alzheimers Dement. 2013 Sep 5. pii: S1552-5260(13)02469-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2013.06.004.
• Zhu Y, Misra S, Nivison-Smith L, Acosta ML, Fletcher EL, Kalloniatis M.  Mapping cation entry in photoreceptors and inner retinal neurons during early degeneration in the P23H-3 rat retina. Vis Neurosci. 2013 May;30(3):65-75. doi: 10.1017/S0952523813000047. Epub 2013 Apr 5. Erratum in: Vis Neurosci. 2013 May;30(3):121.
• Ardiles AO, Ewer J, Acosta ML, Kirkwood A, Martinez AD, Ebensperger LA, Bozinovic F, Lee TM, Palacios AG. Octodon degus (Molina 1782): a model in comparative biology and biomedicine. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2013 Apr 1;2013(4):312-8. doi: 10.1101/pdb.emo071357.
• Nivison-Smith L, Collin SP, Zhu Y, Ready S, Acosta ML, Hunt DM, Potter IC, Kalloniatis M.  Retinal amino acid neurochemistry of the southern hemisphere lamprey, Geotria australis.PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e58406. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058406. Epub 2013 Mar 13.
• Kalloniatis M, Loh CS, Acosta ML, Tomisich G, Zhu Y, Nivison-Smith L, Fletcher EL, Chua J, Sun D, Arunthavasothy N.  Retinal amino acid neurochemistry in health and disease. Clin Exp Optom. 2013 May;96(3):310-32. doi: 10.1111/cxo.12015. Epub 2013 Mar 7. Review.
• de Souza CF, Acosta ML, Polkinghorne PJ, McGhee CN, Kalloniatis M. Amino acid immunoreactivity in normal human retina and after brachytherapy. Clin Exp Optom. 2013 Jan 17. doi: 10.1111/cxo.12011.

• de Souza CF, Kalloniatis M, Christie DL, Polkinghorne PJ, McGhee CN, Acosta ML. Creatine transporter immunolocalization in aged human and detached retinas. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2012 Apr 18;53(4):1936-45. doi: 10.1167/iovs.11-8462.
• de Souza CF, Kalloniatis M, Polkinghorne PJ, McGhee CN, Acosta ML. Functional and anatomical remodeling in human retinal detachment. Exp Eye Res. 2012 Apr;97(1):73-89. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.02.009. Epub 2012 Mar 3.
• de Souza CF, Kalloniatis M, Polkinghorne PJ, McGhee CN, Acosta ML. Functional activation of glutamate ionotropic receptors in the human peripheral retina. Exp Eye Res. 2012 Jan;94(1):71-84. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.11.008. Epub 2011 Nov 25.

• Corfield JR, Gsell AC, Brunton D, Heesy CP, Hall MI, Acosta ML, Iwaniuk AN. Anatomical specializations for nocturnality in a critically endangered parrot, the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus). PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e22945. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022945. Epub 2011 Aug 10.

• Acosta ML, Shin YS, Ready S, Fletcher EL, Christie DL, Kalloniatis M. Comments on: Retinal metabolic state of the proline-23-histidine rat model of retinitis pigmentosa. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2010; 299(3):C186-87.

• Acosta ML, Shin YS, Ready S, Fletcher EL, Christie DL, Kalloniatis M. Retinal metabolic state of the proline-23-histidine rat model of retinitis pigmentosa. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2010 Mar;298(3):C764-74. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00253.2009. Epub 2009 Dec 23.
• Bui BV, Hu RG, Acosta ML, Donaldson P, Vingrys AJ, Kalloniatis M. Glutamate metabolic pathways and retinal function. J Neurochem. 2009 Oct;111(2):589-99. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.06354.x. Epub 2009 Aug 22.

• Acosta ML, Bumsted O’Brien KM, Tan SS, Kalloniatis M. Emergence of cellular markers and functional ionotropic glutamate receptors on tangentially dispersed cells in the developing mouse retina. J Comp Neurol. 2008 Jan 20;506(3):506-23.

• Yu TY, Acosta ML, Ready S, Cheong YL, Kalloniatis M. Light exposure causes functional changes in the retina: increased photoreceptor cation channel permeability, photoreceptor apoptosis, and altered retinal metabolic function. J Neurochem. 2007 Oct;103(2):714-24. Epub 2007 Jul 10.
• Acosta ML, Chua J, Kalloniatis M. Functional activation of glutamate ionotropic receptors in the developing mouse retina. J Comp Neurol. 2007 Feb 10;500(5):923-41.
• Fletcher EL, Acosta ML, Kalloniatis M. (2007)Inherited retinal degeneration, in, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Editors Binder M, Hirokawa N, Windhorst U.

• Acosta ML, Fletcher EL, Azizoglu S, Foster LE, Farber DB, Kalloniatis M. Early markers of retinal degeneration in rd/rd mice. Mol Vis. 2005 Sep 6;11:717-28.
• Acosta ML, Kalloniatis M, Christie DL. Creatine transporter localization in developing and adult retina: importance of creatine to retinal function. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2005 Oct;289(4):C1015-23. Epub 2005 Jun 1.
• Acosta ML, Kalloniatis M. Short- and long-term enzymatic regulation secondary to metabolic insult in the rat retina. J Neurochem. 2005 Mar;92(6):1350-62.
• Acosta M and Goňi B (2000) A technique for collecting and examining a large number of eggs. Drosophila Information Service, (DIS) 83, 174-175.