Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology brings together a group of techniques that will have wide general interest and are applicable to many analytical problems currently faced by neurochemists and other neuroscientists.

This current volume covers some very interesting techniques and provides useful details about theory, instrumentation, potential problems, applications, and relevant references that will be of considerable interest to both novice and seasoned investigators.

Contents

1. Gas Chromatography
2. High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Analysis of Psychotropic and Endogenous Compounds
3. Cytochrome P450 Reactions in the Human Brain
4. Practical Enzymology: Quantifying Enzyme Activity and the Effects of Drugs Thereupon
5. Fluorescence Measurements of Receptor-Ligand Interactions
6. The Analyses of Neurotransmitters, Other Neuroactive Substances, and Their Metabolites Using Mass Spectrometry
7. The Analysis of Neuroactive Steroids by Mass Spectrometry
8. Methods in Immunochemistry
9. In Vivo Microdialysis: A Method for Sampling Extracellular Fluid in Discrete Brain Regions
10. Characterization of Receptors by Radiolabelled Ligand Binding Techniques
11. Analysis of Receptor Localization in the Central Nervous System Using In Vitro and In Vivo Receptor Autoradiography
12. In Silico Molecular Homology Modeling of Neurotransmitter Receptors
13. Flow Cytometry
14. Expression and Study of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels in Xenopus laevis Oocytes
15. Nucleic Acid Quantitation Using the Competitive Polymerase Chain Reaction
16. In Situ Hybridization
17. Analysis of Gene Expression in the Brain Using Differential Display
18. Gene Arrays: A Practical Approach to Studying Stroke with Microarray
19. Yeast Two-Hybrid Studies
20. Protein Engineering: Chimeragenesis and Site-Directed Mutagenesis
21. Cysteine Scanning Mutagenesis: Mapping Binding Sites of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
22. Protein X-Ray Crystallography

Index
See also:
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Behavioral Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology

Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Brain Energetics, Integration of Molecular and Cellular Processes

Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neural Membranes and Transport

Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neural Protein Metabolism and Function

Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neuroactive Proteins and Peptides

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