1. Determination of CO2 Production in Subcellular Preparations like Synaptosomes and Isolated Mitochondria Using 14C-Labeled Substrates and Radioactive CO2 Measurements
Mary C. McKenna and Irene B. Hopkins
2. Transport of Lactate: Characterization of the Transporters Involved in Transport at the Plasma Membrane by Heterologous Protein Expression in Xenopus Oocytes
Holger M. Becker
3. Primary Cultures of Astrocytes and Neurons as Model Systems to Study the Metabolism and Metabolite Export from Brain Cells
Ketki Tulpule, Michaela C. Hohnholt, Johannes Hirrlinger, and Ralf Dringen
4. Metabolic Mapping of Astrocytes and Neurons in Culture Using Stable Isotopes and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
Anne B. Walls, Lasse K. Bak, Ursula Sonnewald, Arne Schousboe, and Helle S. Waagepetersen
5. Metabolic Flux Analysis Tools to Investigate Brain Metabolism In Vitro
Ana I. Amaral, Paula M. Alves, and Ana P. Teixeira
6. Fluorescent Nanosensor Based Flux Analysis: Overview and the Example of Glucose
L. Felipe Barros, Felipe Baeza-Lehnert, Rocío Valdebenito, Sebastián Ceballo, and Karin Alegría
7. Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Assessed by Functional Fluorescence Dyes
Juan Carlos Corona and Michael R. Duchen
8. RNA Interference as a Tool to Selectively Down-Modulate Protein Function
Seila Fernandez-Fernandez and Juan P. Bolaños
9. Localizing and Quantifying Metabolites In Situ with Luminometry: Induced Metabolic Bioluminescence Imaging (imBI)
Stefan Walenta, Nadine F. Voelxen, Ulrike G.A. Sattler, and Wolfgang Mueller-Klieser
10. A Chip Off the Old Block: The Brain Slice as a Model for Metabolic Studies of Brain Compartmentation and Neuropharmacology
Caroline Rae and Vladimir J. Balcar
11. Integrated Measurements of Electrical Activity, Oxygen Tension, Blood Flow, and Ca2+-Signaling in Rodents In Vivo
Claus Mathiesen, Kirsten Thomsen, and Martin Lauritzen
12. Measuring Cerebral Hemodynamics and Energy Metabolism by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Keith St. Lawrence, Kyle Verdecchia, Jonathan Elliott, and Mamadou Diop
13. Compartmental Analysis of Metabolism by 13C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Graeme F. Mason, Lihong Jiang, and Kevin L. Behar
14. Positron Emission Tomography of Brain Glucose Metabolism with [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose in Humans
Albert Gjedde
