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Microdialysis in the Neurosciences

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Preface

List of Contributors

Table of Contents

Section I: Introduction to microdialysis

CHAPTER 1. Introduction to intracerebral microdialysis URBAN UNGERSTEDT

1. Development of microdialysis

2. Features of microdialysis

3. Comparisons to push-pull perfusions

4. Principles of microdialysis

5. The microdialysis experiment

6. Future applications of microdialysis

References

CHAPTER 2. Microdialysis compared with other in vivo release models

1. Introduction

2. Post-mortem tissue analysis

3. Perfusion methods

4. In vivo voltammetry

Acknowledgement

References

Section II: Issues of quantification

CHAPTER 3.Quantitative microdialysis

1. Introduction

2. Quantitative microdialysis models

3. Applications

4. Computational methods

5. Overall concepts and comment

Appendix I

Appendix II

Nomenclature

References

CHAPTER 4.Practical aspects of using microdialysis for determination of brain interstitial concentrations

1. Introduction

2. Principle of microdialysis

3. Measurements with microdialysis

4. Perfusion fluids

5. Factors affecting recovery

6. Tissue disturbances caused by implantation

7. How to determine brain interstitial concentration with microdialysis

8. Transformation of glutamate and dopamine dialysate concentrations into brain interstitial concentrations

9. Conclusion

References

Section III: Methodological considerations

CHAPTER 5. Microdialysis and Liquid Chromatography

1. Introduction

2. Defining the problem

3. Liquid chrornatography

4. The role of column length and diameter

5. The role of temperature

6. Automated fraction collection, sampling and derivatization

7. Gradient elution

8. Detectors

9. Representative applications

10. Calibration of microdialysis probes

11. Conclusion

References

CHAPTER 6. Procedures for microdialysis with smallboreHPLC

1. Introduction

2. Smallbore HPLC procedures

3. Microdialysis procedures

4. Behavioral procedures

5. Application to studies on drug abuse

References

CHAPTER 7. The use of microdialysis in pharmacokineticsand pharmacodynamics

1. Introduction

2. Methods to measure the extracellular concentration by microdialysis

3. Relation between in vivo effect and interstitial fluid concentration ofdrug

4. Distribution of drugs to the interstitium of various tissues

5. Discussion

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER 8. Brain dialysis of monoamines

1. Introduction

2. Criteria for brain dialysis of monoamines

3. Significance of monoamine concentrations in dialysates

4. Physiological media for brain dialysis

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER 9. The feasibility of repeated microdialysis for within-subjects design experiments: studies on the mesostriatal dopamine system

1. Introduction

2. Acute effects of amphetamine on dopamine neurotransmission

3. Amphetamine sensitization

4. The feasibility of repeated microdialysis in dopamine systems of rats

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Section IV: The application of microdialysis in the basic neurosciences

CHAPTER 10. A microdialysis and automated on-lineanalysis approach to study central cholinergictransmission in vivo

1. Introduction

2. Analysis of choline and acetylcholine using HPLC

3. Microdialysis and on-line analysis

4. Experimental studies

Acknowledgement

References

CHAPTER 11. Monitoring extracellular norepinephrine in brain using in vivo microdialysis and HPLC-EC

1. Introduction

2. Experimental procedures

3. Characteristics of extracellular NE

4. Future directions

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER 12. Measurement of extracellular neuropeptides in the brain: microdialysis linked to solid-phase radioimmunoassays with sub-femtomole limits of detection

1. Introduction

2. Membrane recovery characteristics

3. Solid-phase radioimmunoassay procedures

4. In vivo procedures

5. Opioid peptide release in the basal ganglia

6. Neurotensin and CCK release in the limbic forebrain

7. Conclusions and future directions

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER 13. Microdialysis for the study of hypothalamic and pituitary function

1. Introduction

2. The LHRH neurosecretory system

3. LHRH measurements in intrahypophysial microdialysates

4. Hypothalamic monoamines

5. Trans-preopticlseptal microdialysis

6. Summary

References

CHAPTER 14. Microdialysis in large unrestrained animals:neuroendocrine and behavioural studies of acetylcholine, amino acid, monoamine and neuropeptide release in the sheep

1. Introduction

2. Methods

3. Results

4. Discussion

References

CHAPTER 15. On-line real-time monitoring of extracellular lactate, ethanol, glucose and choline, using microdialysis and enzyme reactors

1. Introduction

2. Lactography

3. Glucose monitoring (glucography)

4. Ethanol monitoring

5. Choline monitoring

6. Comments

7. Summary

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER 16. Application of microdialysis to the study of motivation and conditioning: measurements of dopamine and serotonin in freely-behaving rats

1. Introduction

2. Technical considerations

3. Application of dialysis to the study of motivated behaviors

References

Section V: The application of microdialysis in the clinical neurosciences

CHAPTER 17. Microdialysis for metabolic monitoring in cerebral ischemia and trauma: Experimental and clinical studies

1. Introduction

2. Chemical analysis

3. Experimental studies

4. Clinical studies

5. Discussion

Acknowledgements

Ethics

References

CHAPTER 18. Microdialysis techniques for studying brain amino acids in the extracellular fluid:Basic and clinical studies

1. Microdialysis — introductory remarks

2. Microdialysis probes in animal experiments

3. Microdialysis probes in clinical work

4. Methodological aspects

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

CHAPTER 19. In vivo neurochemistry of the conscious human brain: intrahippocampal microdialysis in epilepsy

1. Introduction

2. Microdialysis

3. Methods

4. Results

5. Discussion

Acknowledgements

References

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