Neurobiology 250
Experimental Approaches in Neurobiology
October 29 - December 2, 2001
Dr. Lubert Stryer

SELECTED READINGS

Fluorescence Methods

Zacharias, D.A., Baird, G.S., and Tsien, R.Y., 2000. Recent advances in technology for measuring and manipulating cell signals. Curr Opin Neurobiol, 10:416-421. [PDF file]

Tsien, R.Y., 1999. Monitoring cell calcium. In E. Carafoli and C. Klee (ed.), Calcium as a Cell Regulator, pp. 28-54. Oxford University Press, New York. [PDF file]

Toomre, D., and Manstein, D.J., 2001. Lighting up the cell surface with evanescent wave microscopy. Trends Cell Biol, 11:298-303. [PDF file]

Codazzi, F., Teruel, M.N., and Meyer, T., 2001. Control of astrocyte Ca²⁺ oscillations and waves by oscillating translocation and activation of protein kinase C. Curr Biol, 11:1089-1097. [PDF file]

DNA Arrays

Lockhart, D.J., and Winzeler, E.A., 2000. Genomics, gene expression and DNA arrays. Nature, 405:827-836. [PDF file]

Brown, P.O., and Botstein, D., 1999. Exploring the new world of the genome with DNA microarrays. Nat Genet, 21:33-37. [PDF file]

Lockhart, D.J., and Barlow, C., 2001. Expressing what's on your mind: DNA arrays and the brain. Nat Rev Neurosci, 2:63-68. [PDF file]

Cao, Y., and Dulac, C., 2001. Profiling brain transcription: neurons learn a lesson from yeast. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol., 11:615-620. [PDF file]

Geschwind, D.H., 2000. Mice, microarrays, and the genetic diversity of the brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 97:10676-10678. [PDF file]

Sandberg, R., Yasuda, R., Pankratz, D.G., Carter, T.A., Del Rio, J.A., Wodicka, L., Mayford, M., Lockhart, D.J., and Barlow, C., 2000. Regional and strain-specific gene expression mapping in the adult mouse brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 97:11038-11043. [PDF file]

Miki, R., Kadota, K., Bono, H., et al., 2001. Delineating developmental and metabolic pathways in vivo by expression profiling using the RIKEN set of 18,816 full-length enriched mouse cDNA arrays. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 98:2199-2204. [PDF file]

Lipshutz, R.J., Fodor, S.P., Gingeras, T.R., and Lockhart, D.J., 1999. High density synthetic oligonucleotide arrays. Nat Genet, 21:20-24. [PDF file]

Fodor, S.P., Read, J.L., Pirrung, M.C., Stryer, L., Lu, A.T., and Solas, D., 1991. Light-directed, spatially addressable parallel chemical synthesis. Science, 251:767-773.