Neuroscience Methods: A Guide for Advanced Students

by Rosemary Martin

Overview

Unique in its coverage of such an extensive range of methods, Neuroscience Methods: A Guide for Advanced Students provides easy-to-understand descriptions of the many different techniques that are currently being used to study the brain at the molecular and cellular levels. This valuable reference text will help rescue undergraduate and postgraduate students from continuing bewilderment at the methods sections of current neuroscience publications.
Topics covered include in vivo and in vitro preparations, electrophysiological, histochemical, hybridization and genetic techniques, measurement of cellular ion concentrations, methods of drug application, production of antibodies, expression systems, and neural grafting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789057022449
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/25/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rosemary Martin is currently Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience in the Division of Botany and Zoology at the Australian National University. Her research interests include the cellular basis of neuronal cell death as a result of cerebral ischemia. and the biochemical. pl1ysiological and pharmacological cl1aracterizations of platypus venom.

Table of Contents

Preface, Contributors, SECTION 1 IN VITRO PREPARATIONS, SECTION 2 ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES, SECTION 3 HUMAN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, SECTION 4 APPLICATION OF DRUGS, SECTION 5 MEASUREMENT OF ION CONCENTRATIONS, SECTION 6 IN VIVO TECHNIQUES AND PREPARATIONS, SECTION 7 HISTOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES, SECTION 8 BIOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES, SECTION 9 PRODUCTION OF ANTIBODIES, SECTION 10 BLOTTING AND HYBRIDIZATION TECHNIQUES, SECTION 11 EXPRESSION SYSTEMS, SECTION 12 GENETIC TECHNIQUES, SECTION 13 NEURAL GRAFTING, Glossary, Index

Editorial Reviews

...we would certainly recommend it for any laboratory that has honours, and other students, passing through...the book will be an invaluable aid for students...and will also help more senior neuroscientists in deciphering articles that use techniques that are outside their normal field of interest.

Australian Society of Neuroscience

...this book will be useful to final year neuroscience students in many bioscience degree programs, and as a primer to post-graduate students in MSc courses.

Patricia Revest

An overview of 34 specific methods of brain study, each contributed by a different neuroscientist. Covers preparations, electrophysiological techniques including human electrophysiology, application of drugs, ion concentration measurements, preparations, histochemical and biochemical techniques, antibody production, blotting and hybridization techniques, expression systems, genetic techniques and neural grafting. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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