This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with new information on the latest developments in the field, and the most up-to-date representative methodological information on molecular neuroanatomical and functional techniques that are currently used to study neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels in the brain. The chapters in this book are organized into three parts. Part One discusses molecular immunological and pharmacological aspects related to the detection of receptors and ion channels in the brain. Part Two explores the neuroanatomical techniques devoted to localizing receptors and ion channels within the central nervous system. Part Three looks at functional approaches devoted to ascertaining receptors and ion channels functionality in the brain. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory. Cutting-edge and comprehensive, Receptor and Ion Channels Detection in the Brain, Second Edition is a valuable resource that contains detailed molecular, cellular, neuroanatomical, and electrophysiological methods that will help researchers study neurotransmitter receptor and ion channel in any region of neuron of the brain.

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with new information on the latest developments in the field, and the most up-to-date representative methodological information on molecular neuroanatomical and functional techniques that are currently used to study neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels in the brain. The chapters in this book are organized into three parts. Part One discusses molecular immunological and pharmacological aspects related to the detection of receptors and ion channels in the brain. Part Two explores the neuroanatomical techniques devoted to localizing receptors and ion channels within the central nervous system. Part Three looks at functional approaches devoted to ascertaining receptors and ion channels functionality in the brain. In the Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory. Cutting-edge and comprehensive, Receptor and Ion Channels Detection in the Brain, Second Edition is a valuable resource that contains detailed molecular, cellular, neuroanatomical, and electrophysiological methods that will help researchers study neurotransmitter receptor and ion channel in any region of neuron of the brain.

In the recent years, studies based on two-hybrid screens, proteomic, biochemical and cell biology approaches, have shown that intracellular domains of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) or heptaspanning membrane receptors (HSMRs) interact with intracellular proteins. These interactions are the basis of a protein network associated to these receptors which includes scaffolding proteins containing one or several PDZ (post-synaptic density-95, discs large, zona occludens-1) domains, signalling proteins and proteins of the cytoskeleton. The present book is focused on the emerging evidence for interactions of G protein-coupled receptors with scaffolding, cytoskeletal and signalling proteins that will play a role in the targeting, anchoring and functioning of these receptors in the plasma membrane, thus contributing to cell development and plasticity.