Palmer MJ & Harvey J (2014) Honeybee Kenyon cells are regulated by a tonic GABA receptor conductance. Journal of Neurophysiology 112: 2026-2035. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00180.2014
Palmer MJ, Moffat C, Saranzewa N, Harvey J, Wright GA & Connolly CN (2013) Cholinergic pesticides cause mushroom body neuronal inactivation in honeybees. Nature Communications 4:1634. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2648
Wright GA, Baker DD, Palmer MJ, Stabler D, Mustard JA, Power EF, Borland AM & Stevenson PC (2013) Caffeine in floral nectar enhances a pollinator’s memory of reward. Science 339:1202-1204. DOI: 10.1126/science.1228806
Palmer MJ & Jones SM (2011) Differential kinetic properties of GABAA and GABAC receptors and their role in shaping synaptic output. In: Ionotropic GABA Receptors: From Molecular Structure to Modulation.
Shin E, Palmer MJ, Li M & Fricker-Gates RA (2012) GABAergic neurons from mouse embryonic stem cells possess functional properties of striatal neurons in vitro, and develop into striatal neurons in vivo in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports 8:513-531
Jones SM & Palmer MJ (2011) Pharmacological analysis of the activation and receptor properties of the tonic GABACR current in retinal bipolar cell terminals. PLoS ONE 6(9):e24892
Palmer MJ (2010) Characterisation of bipolar cell synaptic transmission in goldfish retina using paired recordings. Journal of Physiology 588:1489-1498
Jones SM & Palmer MJ (2009) Activation of the tonic GABAC receptor current in retinal bipolar cell terminals by non-vesicular GABA release. Journal of Neurophysiology 102:691-699
Lauri SE*, Palmer MJ*,Segerstrale M, Vesikansa A, Taira T & Collingridge GL (2007) Presynaptic mechanisms involved in the expression of STP and LTP at CA1 synapses in the hippocampus. Neuropharmacology 52:1-11 (*Joint first authors)
Palmer MJ (2006) Functional segregation of GABAA and GABAC receptors in goldfish bipolar cell terminals. Journal of Physiology (Rapid Report) 577:45-53
Palmer MJ (2006) Modulation of Ca2+-activated K+ currents and Ca2+ action potentials by exocytosis in goldfish bipolar cell terminals. Journal of Physiology 572:747-762
Lüthi A, Wikström MA, Palmer MJ, Matthews P, Benke TA, Isaac JTR & Collingridge GL (2004) Bi-directional modulation of AMPA receptor unitary conductance by synaptic activity. BMC Neuroscience 5:44
Palmer MJ, Isaac JTR & Collingridge GL (2004) Multiple, developmentally regulated expression mechanisms of long-term potentiation at CA1 synapses. Journal of Neuroscience 24:4903-4911
Palmer MJ, Hull C, Vigh J & von Gersdorff H (2003) Synaptic cleft acidification and modulation of short-term depression by exocytosed protons in retinal bipolar cells. Journal of Neuroscience 23:11332-11341
Palmer MJ, Taschenberger H, Hull C, Tremere L & von Gersdorff H (2003) Synaptic activation of presynaptic glutamate transporter currents in nerve terminals. Journal of Neuroscience 23:4831-4841
Rammes G, Palmer MJ, Eder M, Dodt H-U, Zieglgänsberger W & Collingridge GL (2003) Activation of mGlu receptors induces LTD without affecting postsynaptic sensitivity of CA1 neurons in rat hippocampal slices. Journal of Physiology 546:455-460
Fitzjohn SM*, Palmer MJ*, May JER, Neeson A, Morris SAC & Collingridge GL (2001) A characterisation of long-term depression induced by metabotropic glutamate receptor activation in the rat hippocampus in vitro. Journal of Physiology 537:421-430 (*Joint first authors)
Benke TA, Lüthi A, Palmer MJ, Wikström MA, Anderson WW, Isaac JTR & Collingridge GL (2001) Mathematical modelling of non-stationary fluctuation analysis for studying channel properties of synaptic AMPA receptors. Journal of Physiology 537:407-420
Doherty AJ, Palmer MJ, Bortolotto ZA, Hargreaves A, Kingston A, Ornstein P, Schoepp DD, Lodge D & Collingridge GL (2000) Antagonism of mGlu receptors, using a novel competitive mGlu5 receptor antagonist (LY344545), blocks potentiation of NMDA responses but not the induction of LTP in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. British Journal of Pharmacology 131:239-244
Lüthi A, Chittajallu R, Duprat F, Palmer MJ, Benke TA, Kidd FL, Henley JM, Isaac JTR & Collingridge GL (1999) Hippocampal LTD expression involves a pool of AMPARs regulated by the NSF-GluR2 interaction. Neuron 24:389-399
Schnabel R, Palmer MJ, Kilpatrick IC & Collingridge GL (1999) The CaMKII inhibitor KN-62 facilitates DHPG-induced LTD in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. Neuropharmacology 38:605-608
Fitzjohn SM, Bortolotto ZA, Palmer MJ, Doherty AJ, Ornstein PL, Schoepp DD, Kingston AE, Lodge D & Collingridge GL (1998) The potent mGlu receptor antagonist LY341495 identifies roles for both cloned and novel mGlu receptors in hippocampal synaptic plasticity. Neuropharmacology 37:1445-1458
Isaac JTR, Lüthi A, Palmer MJ, Anderson WW, Benke TA & Collingridge GL (1998) An investigation of the expression mechanism of LTP of AMPA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission at hippocampal synapses using failures analysis and dendritic recordings. Neuropharmacology 37:1399-1410
Palmer MJ, Irving AJ, Seabrook GR, Jane DE & Collingridge GL (1997) The group I mGlu receptor agonist DHPG induces a novel form of LTD in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. Neuropharmacology 36:1517-1532
Doherty AJ, Palmer MJ, Henley JM, Collingridge GL & Jane DE (1997) (RS)-2-chloro-5-hydroxyphenylglycine (CHPG) activates mGlu5, but not mGlu1, receptors expressed in CHO cells and potentiates NMDA responses in the hippocampus. Neuropharmacology 36:265-267
Fitzjohn SM, Irving AJ, Palmer MJ, Harvey J, Lodge D & Collingridge GL (1996) Activation of group I mGluRs potentiates NMDA responses in rat hippocampal slices. Neuroscience Letters 203:211-213
Harvey J, Palmer MJ, Irving AJ, Clarke VRJ & Collingridge GL (1996) NMDA receptor dependence of mGlu-mediated depression of synaptic transmission in the CA1 region of the rat hippocampus. British Journal of Pharmacology 119:1239-1247