Compendium Of In Vivo Monitoring In Real-time Molecular Neuroscience - Volume 2: Microdialysis And Sensing Of Neural Tissues Hardback

Volume 1 of this series focused mainly on small molecules which are intrinsically electroactive.

Volume 2 continues to provide current approaches to real time measurements of essential species in the central nervous system.

It describes microdialysis, a sampling technique, which facilitates the removal of small volumes of solution containing the analyte(s) of interest which can be subsequently separated by chromatography and analyzed by a range of techniques.

These include electrochemistry, UV-Vis spectroscopy, fluorescence and mass spectroscopy.

This approach affords the opportunity to measure a range of targets in real-time thus providing access to pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics measurements affording the possibility of measuring the disappearance of a drug after administration and the subsequent appearance of metabolites.

Microdialysis further affords the ability to sample peptides and proteins of neurobiological interest.Consistent with the goals of Volume 1, Volume 2 seeks to provide for scientists in the field of neurobiology a base of bioanalytical techniques that may not be familiar to them.

Specific examples are provided and the fundamental basis of the technique is also covered.