Cell Neurobiology Techniques

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Quantitative Autoradiography of Monoamine Uptake Sites and Receptors in Rat and Mouse Brain

   • Tomás A. Reader, Catherine Strazielle

   Pages 1-51

3. Neural Cell Culture Techniques

   • Bernhard H. J. Juurlink, Wolfgang Walz

   Pages 53-102

4. Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules

   • Kim Tieu, Peter H. Yu

   Pages 103-130

5. On the Measurement of Enzymes and their Inhibitors

   • Andrew Holt

   Pages 131-194

6. Cytochrome P-450 Enzymes

   • Paul Glue, Robert P. Clement

   Pages 195-211

7. c-fos Expression as a Marker of Functional Activity in the Brain

   • Teresa L. Krukoff

   Pages 213-230

8. Immediate-Early Genes as Activity Markers in the CNS

   • George S. Robertson

   Pages 231-253

9. Principles of Drug Metabolism, with an Emphasis on Psychiatric Drugs

   • Ronald T. Coutts, jian Fang, Michel Bourin, Glen B. Baker

   Pages 255-286

10. Flow Cytometric Strategies to Study CNS Development

    • Dragan Marie, Irina Maric, Jeffery L Barker

    Pages 287-318

11. Neurochemistry of Human Postmortem Brain

    • Gavin P. Reynolds, Clare L. Beasley

    Pages 319-346

12. Applications of Proton MRS to Study Human Brain Metabolism

    • Christopher C. Hanstock, Peter S. Allen

    Pages 347-380

13. Back Matter

    Pages 381-391

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The cutting-edge techniques detailed here include those that are particularly popular in multidisciplinary neuroscience research. There are readily reproducible methods for establishing neural cell cultures, measuring enzymes and their inhibitors, and using quantitative autoradiography to study monoamine uptake sites and receptors in the brain. Additional methods cover the use of flow cytometry to study developmental neurobiology, applications of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to human brain metabolism, and the study of drug metabolism. Together with its companion volumes, In Vivo Neuromethods and In Vitro Neurochemical Techniques, all three cutting-edge works will prove exceptionally useful to those basic and clinical neuroscientists who want to expand the range of their current research or develop competence in complementary methods.

• University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

  Alan A. Boulton

• University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Glen B. Baker, Alan N. Bateson

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