Basic Molecular Protocols in Neuroscience: Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls

Basic Neuroscience Protocols: Tips, Tricks, and Pitfalls contains explanatory sections that describe the techniques and what each technique really tells the researcher on a scientific level. These explanations describe relevant controls, troubleshooting, and reaction components for some of the most widely used neuroscience protocols that remain difficult for many neuroscientists to implement successfully. Having this additional information will help researchers ensure that their experiments work the first time, and will also minimize the time spent working on a technique only to discover that the problem was them, and not their materials.

Describes techniques in very specific detail with step-by-step instructions, giving researchers in-depth understandingOffers many details not present in other protocol booksDescribes relevant controls for each technique and what those controls meanChapters include references (key articles, books, protocols) for additional studyDescribes both the techniques and the habits necessary to get quality results, such as aseptic technique, aliquoting, and general laboratory rules

Introduction

General Notes

DNA and RNA Extraction Protocols

Agarose Gell Electrophoresis 

Reverse Transcription (RT) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Antibodies and Titrations

Protein Extraction

Immunoblotting (Western Blot)

Immunoprecipitation 

Perfusion and Immersion Fixation 

Immunohistochemistry

In situ Hybridization

References