Glutamate Receptors

Preface... Table of Contents... Contributing Authors... Part I Synaptic Ultrastructure/Receptor Dynamics/Receptor Interactions and Trafficking 1. Single Molecule FRET Methods to Study Glutamate Receptors Douglas Litwin, Ryan Durham, and Vasanthi Jayaraman 2. Ultrastructural Observation of Glutamatergic Synapses by Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB/SEM) Ai Takahashi, Laxmi Kumar Parajuli, Hirohide Iwasaki, Shinji Tanaka, and Shigeo Okabe 3. Considerations for Imaging and Analyzing Neural Structures by STED Microscopy Martin O. Lenz and Jan Tønnesen 4. Cell-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Cell-ELISA) Analysis of Native and Recombinant Glutamate Receptors Elek Molnár Part II Function/Cellular Plasticity 5. Preparation of Organotypic Slice Cultures for the Study of Glutamate Receptor Function Andres Barria 6. Glutamate Receptor Probing with Rapid Application and Solution Exchange (RASE) Nathanael O'Neil and Sergiy Sylantyev 7. Electrophysiological Investigation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Metaplasticity in the Hippocampus Regina U. Hegemann and Wickliffe C. Abraham 8. Induction of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Mediated Long-Term Depression in the Hippocampal Schaffer Collateral Pathway of Aging Rats Kirstan E. Gimse, Kenneth O'Riordan, and Corinna Burger 9. Whole-Cell Patch Clamp Electrophysiology to Study Inotropic Glutamatergic Receptors and Their Roles in Addiction Jonna M. Leyrer-Jackson, M. Foster Olive, and Cassandra D. Gipson Part III Receptor Gene Regulation/Epigenetics 10. Gene Expression Analysis by Multiplex Single Cell RT-PCR Tricoire Ludovic, Cauli Bruno, and Lambolez Bertrand 11. Metabolomics Analysis of Glutamate Receptor Function Nataliya E. Chorna and Anatoliy P. Chornyy 12. Locus-Specific DNA Methylation Assays to Study Glutamate Receptor Regulation Jordan A. Brown, J. David Sweatt, and Garrett A. Kaas 13. Preparation of Synaptoneurosomes for the Study of Glutamate Receptor Function Cara J. Westmark and