Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pharmacological analysis of recombinant NR1a/2A and NR1a/2B NMDA receptors using the whole-cell patch-clamp method / Lâaszlâo Fodor and Jâozsef Nagy -- Memantine as an example of a fast, voltage-dependent, open channel N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor blocker / Chris G. Parsons and Kate Gilling -- Methods for evaluation of positive allosteric modulators of glutamate AMPA receptors / Edward R. Siuda, Jennifer C. Quirk, and Eric S. Nisenbaum -- Automated voltage-clamp technique / Andrea Ghetti, Antâonio Guia, and Jia Xu -- Flip-the-tip : automated patch clamping based on glass electrodes / Michael Fejtl [and others] -- The roboocyte : automated electrophysiology based on Xenopus oocytes / Christine Leisgen, Mike Kuester, and Christoph Methfessel -- Infrared-guided laser stimulation as a tool for elucidating the synaptic site of expression of long-term synaptic plasticity / Gerhard Rammes [and others] -- Single-cell RT-PCR, a technique to decipher the electrical, anatomical, and genetic determinants of neuronal diversity / Maria Toledo-Rodriguez and Henry Markram -- Mechanosensitive ion channels investigated simultaneously by scanning probe microscopy and patch clamp / Matthias G. Langer -- Synaptic connectivity in engineered neuronal networks / Peter Molnar [and others] -- Modeling of action potential generation in NG108-15 cells / Peter Molnar and James J. Hickman -- Whole-cell voltage clamp on skeletal muscle fibers with the silicone-clamp technique / Sandrine Pouvreau [and others] -- Determination of channel properties at the unitary level in adult mammalian isolated cardiomyocytes / Romain Guinamard -- Electrophysiological properties of embryonic stem cells during differentiation into cardiomyocyte-like cell types / Antoni C.G. van Ginneken and Arnoud C. Fijnvandraat -- Hybrid neuronal network studies under dynamic clamp / Alan D. Dorval II [and others] -- Cardiac channelopathies studied with the dynamic action potential-clamp technique / Gâeza Berecki [and others] -- Principles of single-channel kinetic analysis / Feng Qin -- Use of Xenopus oocytes to measure ionic selectivity of pore-forming peptides and ion channels / Thierry Cens and Pierre Charnet -- Estimation of quantal parameters with multiple-probability fluctuation analysis / Chiara Saviane and Robin Angus Silver.