Publications

2023

• Matamoros M, Ng XW, Brettmann JB, Piston DW, Nichols CG. Conformational plasticity of NaK2K and TREK2 potassium channel selectivity filters. Nat Commun. 2023 Jan 6;14(1):89. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35756-7.
• Dong G, Adak S, Spyropoulos G, Zhang Q, Feng C, Yin L, Speck SL, Shyr Z, Morikawa S, Kitamura RA, Kathayat RS, Dickinson BC, Ng XW, Piston DW, Urano F, Remedi MS, Wei X, Semenkovich CF. Palmitoylation couples insulin hypersecretion with β cell failure in diabetes. Cell Metab. 2023 Feb 7;35(2):332-344.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.12.012. Epub 2023 Jan 11.
• Polino AJ, Sviben S, Melena I, Piston DW, Hughes J. Scanning electron microscopy of human islet cilia. bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 15;2023.02.15.528685. doi: 10.1101/2023.02.15.528685.
• Polino AJ, Sviben S, Melena I, Piston DW, Hughes JW. Scanning electron microscopy of human islet cilia. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2023 May 30;120(22):e2302624120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2302624120. Epub 2023 May 19.
• Cheng J, McMahon SM, Piston DW, Jackson MB. Comparing confocal and two-photon Ca²⁺ imaging of thin low-scattering preparations. Biophys Rep (NY). 2023 Apr 20;3(2):100109. doi: 10.1016/j.bpr.2023.100109. eCollection 2023 Jun 14.

2022

• Kelly KP, Borsetti H, Wenzler ME, Ustione A, Kim K, Christov PP, Ramirez B, Bauer JA, Piston DW, Johnson CH, Sulikowski GA. Screen for Small-Molecule Modulators of Circadian Rhythms Reveals Phenazine as a Redox-State Modifying Clockwork Tuner. ACS Chem Biol. 2022 Jul 15;17(7):1658-1664. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00240. Epub 2022 Jun 9.
• Kebede MA, Piston DW. Sorting Out the Receptor Isoforms Underlying Dopamine Inhibition of Insulin Secretion. Diabetes. 2022 Sep 1;71(9):1831-1833. doi: 10.2337/dbi22-0018.
• Ng XW, Chung YH, Asadi F, Kong C, Ustione A, Piston DW. RhoA as a Signaling Hub Controlling Glucagon Secretion From Pancreatic α-Cells. Diabetes. 2022 Nov 1;71(11):2384-2394. doi: 10.2337/db21-1010.
• Chen KH, Doliba N, May CL, Roman J, Ustione A, Tembo T, Negron A, Radovick S, Piston DW, Glaser B, Kaestner KH, Matschinsky FM. Genetic activation of glucokinase in a minority of pancreatic beta cells causes hypoglycemia in mice. Life Sci. 2022 Nov 15;309:120952. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2022.120952. Epub 2022 Sep 11.

2021

• Ng, X.W., Y.H. Chung, D.W. Piston.  2021.  Intercellular Communication in the Islet of Langerhans in Health and Disease.  Comp Physiol.  In Press.

2020

• Abreu D, Asada R, Revilla JMP, Lavagnino Z, Kries K, Piston DW, Urano F. Wolfram syndrome 1 gene regulates pathways maintaining beta-cell health and survival. Lab Invest. 2020 Jun;100(6):849-862. doi: 10.1038/s41374-020-0408-5. Epub 2020 Feb 14. PMID: 32060407; PMCID: PMC7286786.
• Hughes JW, Cho JH, Conway HE, DiGruccio MR, Ng XW, Roseman HF, Abreu D, Urano F, Piston DW. Primary cilia control glucose homeostasis via islet paracrine interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Apr 21;117(16):8912-8923. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001936117. Epub 2020 Apr 6. PMID: 32253320; PMCID: PMC7184063.

2019

• Verma M, Choi J, Cottrell KA, Lavagnino Z, Thomas EN, Pavlovic-Djuranovic S, Szczesny P, Piston DW, Zaher HS, Puglisi JD, Djuranovic S,  A short translational ramp determines the efficiency of protein synthesis. Nat Commun. 2019 Dec 18;10(1):5774. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13810-1. PMID: 31852903; PMCID: PMC6920384.
• Yamaguchi S, Franczyk MP, Chondronikola M, Qi N, Gunawardana SC, Stromsdorfer KL, Porter LC, Wozniak DF, Sasaki Y, Rensing N, Wong M, Piston DW, Klein S, Yoshino J,  Adipose tissue NAD⁺ biosynthesis is required for regulating adaptive thermogenesis and whole-body energy homeostasis in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Nov 19;116(47):23822-23828. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909917116. Epub 2019 Nov 6. PMID: 31694884; PMCID: PMC6876243.
• Foust DJ, Godin AG, Ustione A, Wiseman PW, Piston DW, Two-Color Spatial Cumulant Analysis Detects Heteromeric Interactions between Membrane Proteins. Biophys J. 2019 Nov 5;117(9):1764-1777. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.09.028. Epub 2019 Sep 28. PMID: 31606123; PMCID: PMC6838761.
• Gunawardana SC, Piston DW, Insulin-Independent Reversal of Type-1 Diabetes Following Transplantation of Adult Brown Adipose Tissue Supplemented With IGF-1. Transplant Direct. 2019 Oct 8;5(11):e500. doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000000945. PMID: 31773053; PMCID: PMC6831116.
• Emfinger CH, Lőrincz R, Wang Y, York NW, Singareddy SS, Ikle JM, Tryon RC, McClenaghan C, Shyr ZA, Huang Y, Reissaus CA, Meyer D, Piston DW, Hyrc K, Remedi MS, Nichols CG, Beta-cell excitability and excitability-driven diabetes in adult Zebrafish islets. Physiol Rep. 2019 Jun;7(11):e14101. doi: 10.14814/phy2.14101. PMID: 31161721; PMCID: PMC6546968.
• Li S, Lavagnino Z, Lemacon D, Kong L, Ustione A, Ng X, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Zheng B, Piwnica-Worms H, Vindigni A, Piston DW, You Z, Ca²⁺-Stimulated AMPK-Dependent Phosphorylation of Exo1 Protects Stressed Replication Forks from Aberrant Resection. Mol Cell. 2019 Jun 20;74(6):1123-1137.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.04.003. Epub 2019 Apr 30. PMID: 31053472; PMCID: PMC6588484.
• Ferri G, Digiacomo L, Lavagnino Z, Occhipinti M, Bugliani M, Cappello V, Caracciolo G, Marchetti P, Piston DW, Cardarelli F,  Insulin secretory granules labelled with phogrin-fluorescent proteins show alterations in size, mobility and responsiveness to glucose stimulation in living β-cells. Sci Rep. 2019 Feb 27;9(1):2890. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-39329-5. PMID: 30814595; PMCID: PMC6393586.

2018

• Hughes JW, Ustione A, Lavagnino Z, Piston DW, Regulation of islet glucagon secretion: Beyond calcium. Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 20 Suppl 2:127-136, 2018.
• Horani A, Ustione A, Huang T, Firth AL, Pan J, Gunsten SP, Haspel JA, Piston DW, Brody SL, Establishment of the early cilia preassembly protein complex during motile ciliogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A,  Jan 22 2018.

2017

• Elliott AD, Bedard N, Ustione A, Baird MA, Davidson MW, Tkaczyk T, Piston DW, Hyperspectral imaging for simultaneous measurements of two FRET biosensors in pancreatic beta-cells. PloS one 12, 2017.
• Reissaus CA, Piston DW, Reestablishment of Glucose Inhibition of Glucagon Secretion in Small Pseudoislets. Diabetes 66, 960-969, 2017.
• Bechard ME, Bankaitis ED, Ustione A, Piston DW, Magnuson MA, Wright CVE, FUCCI tracking shows cell-cycle-dependent Neurog3 variation in pancreatic progenitors. Genesis 55, 2017.
• Clark AL, Kanekura K, Lavagnino Z, Spears LD, Abreu D, Mahadevan J, Yagi T, Semenkovich CF, Piston DW, Urano F, Targeting Cellular Calcium Homeostasis to Prevent Cytokine-Mediated Beta Cell Death. Scientific reports 7:5611, 2017.

2016

• Lee J, Harris AN, Holley CL, Mahadevan J, Pyles KD, Lavagnino Z, Scherrer DE, Fujiwara H, Sidhu R, Zhang J, Huang SC, Piston DW, Remedi MS, Urano F, Ory DS, Schaffer JE, Rpl13a small nucleolar RNAs regulate systemic glucose metabolism. J Clin Invest 126(12), 4616-4625, 2016.
• Syring KE, Boortz KA, Oeser JK, Ustione A, Platt KA, Shadoan MK, McGuinness OP, Piston DW, Powell DR, O’Brien RM, Combined Deletion of Slc30a7 and Slc30a8 Unmasks a Critical Role for ZnT8 in Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion. Endocrinology 157(12), 4534-4541, 2016.
• Bechard ME, Bankaitis ED, Hipkens SB, Ustione A, Piston DW, Yang YP, Magnuson MA, Wright CV, Precommitment low-level Neurog3 expression defines a long-lived mitotic endocrine-biased progenitor pool that drives production of endocrine-committed cells. Genes Dev 30(16), 1852-65, 2016.
• Caldwell B, Ustione A, Piston, DW, Dopamine Receptor Signaling in MIN6 β-Cells Revealed by Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy. Biophys J, 609-18, 2016.
• Lavagnino Z, Dwight J, Ustione A, Nguyen TU, Tkaczyk TS, Piston DW,  Snapshot Hyperspectral Light-Sheet Imaging of Signal Transduction in Live Pancreatic Islets. Biophys J, 409-17, 2016.
• Cranfill PJ, Sell BR, Baird MA, Allen JR, Lavagnino Z, de Gruiter HM, Kremers GJ, Davidson MW, Ustione A, Piston DW, Quantitative assessment of fluorescent proteins. Nat Methods, 557-62, 2016.
• Liv N, van Oosten Slingeland DS, Baudoin JP, Kruit P, Piston DW, Hoogenboom JP,Electron Microscopy of Living Cells During in Situ Fluorescence Microscopy. ACS Nano, 265-73, 2016.

2015

• Hutchens T, Piston DW, EphA4 Receptor Forward Signaling Inhibits Glucagon Secretion From α-Cells. Diabetes, 3839-51, 2015.
• Gunawardana SC, Piston DW,  Insulin-independent reversal of type 1 diabetes in nonobese diabetic mice with brown adipose tissue transplant. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E1043-55, 2015.

• Mendonsa AM, VanSaun MN, Ustione A, Piston DW, Fingleton BM, Gorden DL, Host and tumor derived MMP13 regulate extravasation and establishment of colorectal metastases in the liver. Mol Cancer, 49, 2015.
• Elliott AD, Ustione A, Piston DW, Somatostatin and insulin mediate glucose-inhibited glucagon secretion in the pancreatic α-cell by lowering cAMP. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E130-43, 2015.
• DeGuire SM, Earl DC, Du Y, Crews BA, Jacobs AT, Ustione A, Daniel C, Chong KM, Marnett LJ, Piston DW, Bachmann BO, Sulikowski GA,  Fluorescent probes of the apoptolidins and their utility in cellular localization studies. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 961-4, 2015.

2014

• Benninger RK, Hutchens T, Head WS, McCaughey MJ, Zhang M, Le Marchand SJ, Satin LS, Piston DW,  Intrinsic islet heterogeneity and gap junction coupling determine spatiotemporal Ca²⁺ wave dynamics. Biophys J, 2723-33, 2014.
• Piston, DW. Biophysical Journal special issue: focus on quantitative cell biology. Biophys J, E01, 2014.
• Barnes TM, Otero YF, Elliott AD, Locke AD, Malabanan CM, Coldren AG, Brissova M, Piston DW, McGuinness OP,  Interleukin-6 amplifies glucagon secretion: coordinated control via the brain and pancreas. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E896-905, 2014.
• Gunawardana, SC. Benefits of healthy adipose tissue in the treatment of diabetes. World J Diabetes, 420-30, 2014.
• Grabowska MM, Elliott AD, DeGraff DJ, Anderson PD, Anumanthan G, Yamashita H, Sun Q, Friedman DB, Hachey DL, Yu X, Sheehan JH, Ahn JM, Raj GV, Piston DW, Gronostajski RM, Matusik RJ, NFI transcription factors interact with FOXA1 to regulate prostate-specific gene expression. Mol Endocrinol, 949-64, 2014.
• Dadi PK, Vierra NC, Ustione A, Piston DW, Colbran RJ, Jacobson DA,  Inhibition of Pancreatic β-Cell Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II Reduces Glucose-stimulated Calcium Influx and Insulin Secretion, Impairing Glucose Tolerance. J Biol Chem, 12435-45, 2014.
• Piston, DW. Reply to “Letter to the editor: ‘Quantifying albumin permeability with multiphoton microscopy: why the difference?'”. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol, F1104-5, 2014.
• Benninger RK, Piston DW,  Cellular communication and heterogeneity in pancreatic islet insulin secretion dynamics. Trends Endocrinol Metab, 2014.
• Hang Y, Yamamoto T, Benninger RK, Brissova M, Guo M, Bush W, Piston DW, Powers AC, Magnuson M, Thurmond DC, Stein R,  The MafA transcription factor becomes essential to islet β-cells soon after birth. Diabetes, 2014.
• Short KW, Head WS, Piston DW, Connexin 36 mediates blood cell flow in mouse pancreatic islets. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E324-31, 2014.
• Yan Y, Jiang L, Aufderheide KJ, Wright GA, Terekhov A, Costa L, Qin K, McCleery WT, Fellenstein JJ, Ustione A, Robertson JB, Johnson CH, Piston DW, Hutson MS, Wikswo JP, Hofmeister W, Janetopoulos C,  A microfluidic-enabled mechanical microcompressor for the immobilization of live single- and multi-cellular specimens. Microsc Microanal, 141-51, 2014.
• Cohen P, Levy JD, Zhang Y, Frontini A, Kolodin DP, Svensson KJ, Lo JC, Zeng X, Ye L, Khandekar MJ, Wu J, Gunawardana SC, Banks AS, Camporez JP, Jurczak MJ, Kajimura S, Piston DW, Mathis D, Cinti S, Shulman GI, Seale P, Spiegelman BM,  Ablation of PRDM16 and beige adipose causes metabolic dysfunction and a subcutaneous to visceral fat switch. Cell, 304-16, 2014.
• Schwetz TA, Reissaus CA, Piston DW,  Differential stimulation of insulin secretion by GLP-1 and Kisspeptin-10. PLoS One, e113020, 2014.

2013

• Schietinger A, Arina A, Liu RB, Wells S, Huang J, Engels B, Bindokas V, Bartkowiak T, Lee D, Herrmann A, Piston DW, Pittet MJ, Lin PC, Zal T, Schreiber H,  Longitudinal confocal microscopy imaging of solid tumor destruction following adoptive T cell transfer. Oncoimmunology, e26677, 2013.
• Ustione A, Piston DW, Harris PE,  Minireview: Dopaminergic regulation of insulin secretion from the pancreatic islet. Mol Endocrinol, 1198-207, 2013.
• Kumar, AN, Short, KW, Piston, DW. A motion correction framework for time series sequences in microscopy images. Microsc Microanal, 433-50, 2013.
• Schwetz, TA, Ustione, A, Piston, DW. Neuropeptide Y and somatostatin inhibit insulin secretion through different mechanisms. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E211-21, 2013.
• Benninger RK, Piston DW, Two-photon excitation microscopy for the study of living cells and tissues. Current protocols in cell biology Chapter 4:Unit 4 11 11-24, 2013

2012

• Ustione, A, Piston, DW. Dopamine synthesis and D3 receptor activation in pancreatic β-cells regulates insulin secretion and intracellular [Ca(2+)] oscillations. Mol Endocrinol, 1928-40, 2012.
• Elliott, AD, Gao, L, Bedard, N, Kester, R, Piston, DW, Tkaczyk, TS. Real-time hyperspectral flourescence imaging of pancratic B-cell dynamics with the image mapping spectrometer. J Cell Sci, 4833-40, 2012.
• Gunawardana, SC. Therapeutic value of brown adipose tissue: Correcting metabolic disease through generating healthy fat. Adipocyte, 250-255, 2012.
• Gunawardana, SC. Adipose tissue, hormones, and treatment of type 1 diabetes. Curr Diab Rep, 542-50, 2012.
• Head, WS, Orseth, ML, Nunemaker, CS, Satin, LS, Piston, DW, Benninger, RK. Connexin-36 gap junctions regulate in vivo first- and second-phase insulin secretion dynamics and glucose tolerance in the conscious mouse. Diabetes, 1700-7, 2012.
• Chang, JC, Tomlinson, ID, Warnement, MR, Ustione, A, Carneiro, AM, Piston, DW, Blakely, RD, Rosenthal, SJ. Single molecule analysis of serotonin transporter regulation using antagonist-conjugated quantum dots reveals restricted, p38 MAPK-dependent mobilization underlying uptake activation. J Neurosci, 8919-29, 2012.
• Piston, DW. Research tools: Understand how it works. Nature, 440-1, 2012.
• Gunawardana, SC, Piston, DW. Reversal of type 1 diabetes in mice by brown adipose tissue transplant. Diabetes, 674-82, 2012.
• Pound, LD, Sarkar, SA, Ustione, A, Dadi, PK, Shadoan, MK, Lee, CE, Walters, JA, Shiota, M, McGuinness, OP, Jacobson, DA, Piston, DW, Hutton, JC, Powell, DR, O’Brien, RM. The physiological effects of deleting the mouse SLC30A8 gene encoding zinc transporter-8 are influenced by gender and genetic background. PLoS One, e40972, 2012.
• Le, Marchand, SJ, Piston, DW. Glucose decouples intracellular Ca2+ activity from glucagon secretion in mouse pancreatic islet alpha-cells. PLoS One, e47084, 2012.

2011

• Benninger, RK, Head, WS, Zhang, M, Satin, LS, Piston, DW. Gap junctions and other mechanisms of cell-cell communication regulate basal insulin secretion in the pancreatic islet. J Physiol, 5453-66, 2011.
• Ustione, A, Piston, DW. A simple introduction to multiphoton microscopy. J Microsc, 221-6, 2011.
• Chen, SX, Osipovich, AB, Ustione, A, Potter, LA, Hipkens, S, Gangula, R, Yuan, W, Piston, DW, Magnuson, MA. Quantification of factors influencing fluorescent protein expression using RMCE to generate an allelic series in the ROSA26 locus in mice. Dis Model Mech, 537-47, 2011.
• Higginbotham, JN, Demory, Beckler, M, Gephart, JD, Franklin, JL, Bogatcheva, G, Kremers, GJ, Piston, DW, Ayers, GD, McConnell, RE, Tyska, MJ, Coffey, RJ. Amphiregulin exosomes increase cancer cell invasion. Curr Biol, 779-86, 2011.
• Benninger, RK, Remedi, MS, Head, WS, Ustione, A, Nichols, CG, Piston, DW. Defects in beta cell Ca²+ signalling, glucose metabolism and insulin secretion in a murine model of K(ATP) channel-induced neonatal diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia, 1087-97, 2011.
• Kremers, GJ, Gilbert, SG, Cranfill, PJ, Davidson, MW, Piston, DW. Fluorescent proteins at a glance. J Cell Sci, 157-60, 2011.

2010

• Martin, MD, Kremers, GJ, Short, KW, Rocheleau, JV, Xu, L, Piston, DW, Matrisian, LM, Gorden, DL. Rapid extravasation and establishment of breast cancer micrometastases in the liver microenvironment. Mol Cancer Res, 1319-27, 2010.
• Zhao, A, Ohara-Imaizumi, M, Brissova, M, Benninger, RK, Xu, Y, Hao, Y, Abramowitz, J, Boulay, G, Powers, AC, Piston, D, Jiang, M, Nagamatsu, S, Birnbaumer, L, Gu, G. Gαo represses insulin secretion by reducing vesicular docking in pancreatic beta-cells. Diabetes, 2522-9, 2010.
• Piston, DW. Fluorescence anisotropy of protein complexes in living cells. Biophys J, 1685-6, 2010.
• Kremers, GJ, Piston, D. Photoconversion of purified fluorescent proteins and dual-probe optical highlighting in live cells. J Vis Exp, 2010.
• Piston, DW, Matrisian, LM, Gorden, DL, Uddin, MJ, Crews, BC, Blobaum, AL, Kingsley, PJ, McIntyre, JO, Subbaramaiah, K, Dannenberg, AJ, Marnett, LJ. Selective visualization of cyclooxygenase-2 in inflammation and cancer by targeted fluorescent imaging agents. Cancer Res, 3618-27, 2010.
• Le Marchand, SJ, Piston, DW. Glucose suppression of glucagon secretion: metabolic and calcium responses from alpha-cells in intact mouse pancreatic islets. J Biol Chem, 14389-98, 2010.
• Nyman, LR, Ford, E, Powers, AC, Piston, DW. Glucose-dependent blood flow dynamics in murine pancreatic islets in vivo. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E807-14, 2010.
• Hilliard, FA, Steele, DS, Laver, D, Yang, Z, Le, Marchand, SJ, Chopra, N, Piston, DW, Huke, S, Knollmann, BC. Flecainide inhibits arrhythmogenic Ca2+ waves by open state block of ryanodine receptor Ca2+ release channels and reduction of Ca2+ spark mass. J Mol Cell Cardiol, 293-301, 2010.

2009 and earlier

• Easley, CJ, Rocheleau, JV, Head, WS, Piston, DW. Quantitative measurement of zinc secretion from pancreatic islets with high temporal resolution using droplet-based microfluidics. Anal Chem, 9086-95, 2009.
• Pound, LD, Sarkar, SA, Benninger, RK, Wang, Y, Suwanichkul, A, Shadoan, MK, Printz, RL, Oeser, JK, Lee, CE, Piston, DW, McGuinness, OP, Hutton, JC, Powell, DR, O’Brien, RM. Deletion of the mouse Slc30a8 gene encoding zinc transporter-8 results in impaired insulin secretion. Biochem J, 371-6, 2009.
• Kremers, GJ, Hazelwood, KL, Murphy, CS, Davidson, MW, Piston, DW. Photoconversion in orange and red fluorescent proteins. Nat Methods, 355-8, 2009.
• Easley, CJ, Benninger, RK, Shaver, JH, Steven, Head, W, Piston, DW. Rapid and inexpensive fabrication of polymeric microfluidic devices via toner transfer masking. Lab Chip, 1119-27, 2009.
• de, Jonge, N, Peckys, DB, Kremers, GJ, Piston, DW. Electron microscopy of whole cells in liquid with nanometer resolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2159-64, 2009.
• Gunawardana, SC, Benninger, RK, Piston, DW. Subcutaneous transplantation of embryonic pancreas for correction of type 1 diabetes. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E323-32, 2009.
• Benninger, RK, Ashby, WJ, Ring, EA, Piston, DW. Single-photon-counting detector for increased sensitivity in two-photon laser scanning microscopy. Opt Lett, 2895-7, 2008.
• Piston, DW, Head, WS, Benninger, RK, Zhang, M, Satin, LS. Gap junction coupling and calcium waves in the pancreatic islet. Biophys J, 5048-61, 2008.
• Nyman, LR, Wells, KS, Head, WS, McCaughey, M, Brissova, M, Ford, E, Piston, DW, Powers, AC. Real-time, multidimensional in vivo imaging used to investigate blood flow in mouse pancreatic islets. J Clin Invest, 3790-7, 2008.
• Piston, DW, Zavalin, A, Hachey, DL, Sundaramoorthy, M, Banerjee, S, Morgan, S, Feldman, L, Tolk, N. Kinetics of a collagen-like polypeptide fragmentation after mid-IR free-electron laser ablation. Biophys J, 1371-81, 2008.
• Gunawardana, SC, Head, WS, Piston, DW. Dimethyl amiloride improves glucose homeostasis in mouse models of type 2 diabetes. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E1097-108, 2008.
• Piston, D, Zavalin, A, Morgan, S, Cricenti, A, Generosi, R, Luce, M. Nano-Raman mapping of a porous glass-ceramic SERS substrate in collection mode. J Microsc, 402-6, 2008.
• Piston, DW, Benninger, RK, Hao, M. Multi-photon excitation imaging of dynamic processes in living cells and tissues. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol, 71-92, 2008.
• Piston, DW, Rizzo, MA. FRET by fluorescence polarization microscopy. Methods Cell Biol, 415-30, 2008.
• Piston, DW, Martin, MD, Matrisian, LM, McIntyre, JO, Fingleton, B, Lynch, CC, Wells, S. Establishment and quantitative imaging of a 3D lung organotypic model of mammary tumor outgrowth. Clin Exp Metastasis, 877-85, 2008.
• Piston, DW, Hao, M, Gruen, ML, Hasty, AH. Leptin requires canonical migratory signaling pathways for induction of monocyte and macrophage chemotaxis. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, C1481-8, 2007.
• Piston, DW, Head, WS, Gunawardana, SC, Hao, M, Hasty, AH. Direct effect of cholesterol on insulin secretion: a novel mechanism for pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction. Diabetes, 2328-38, 2007.
• Piston, DW, Kremers, GJ. Fluorescent protein FRET: the good, the bad and the ugly. Trends Biochem Sci, 407-14, 2007.
• Piston, DW, Hao, M, Li, C, Cao, Z, Ding, W, Graves-Deal, R, Hu, J, Coffey, RJ. Naked2 acts as a cargo recognition and targeting protein to ensure proper delivery and fusion of TGF-alpha containing exocytic vesicles at the lower lateral membrane of polarized MDCK cells. Mol Biol Cell, 3081-93, 2007.
• Piston, DW. The coming of age of two-photon excitation imaging for intravital microscopy. Adv Drug Deliv Rev, 770-2, 2006.
• Piston, DW, Rocheleau, JV, Head, WS, Gunawardana, SC. Mechanisms of time-dependent potentiation of insulin release: involvement of nitric oxide synthase. Diabetes, 1029-33, 2006.
• Piston, DW, Rocheleau, JV, Head, WS, Remedi, MS, Granada, B, Koster, JC, Nichols, CG. Critical role of gap junction coupled KATP channel activity for regulated insulin secretion. PLoS Biol, e26, 2006.
• Piston, DW, Rocheleau, JV, Hao, M, Rizzo, MA, Li, X, Dawant, BM. Regulation of two insulin granule populations within the reserve pool by distinct calcium sources. J Cell Sci, 5873-84, 2005.
• Piston, DW, Head, WS, Gunawardana, SC. Amiloride derivatives enhance insulin release in pancreatic islets from diabetic mice. BMC Endocr Disord, 9, 2005.
• Piston, DW, Rocheleau, JV, Shiota, C, Shiota, M, Magnuson, MA. Impaired glucagon secretory responses in mice lacking the type 1 sulfonylurea receptor. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, E570-7, 2005.
• Piston, DW, Rizzo, MA, Springer, G, Segawa, K. Quantitative Imaging of Fluorescent Protein FRET. Microsc Microanal, 270-1, 2005.
• Piston, DW. When two is better than one: elements of intravital microscopy. PLoS Biol, e207, 2005.
• Piston, DW, Schwartz, JW, Novarino, G, DeFelice, LJ. Substrate binding stoichiometry and kinetics of the norepinephrine transporter. J Biol Chem, 19177-84, 2005.
• Piston, DW, Head, WS, Gunawardana, SC, Magnuson, MA, Hara, M, Bell, GI. Imaging Beta cell development in real-time using pancreatic explants from mice with green fluorescent protein-labeled pancreatic Beta cells. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim, 7-11, 2005.