Publisher's Synopsis
The simplicity and potency of toxins have made them valuable probes of neural systems. This book presents a comprehensive compilation of techniques used for the preparation, handling, and, particularly, for the use of neurotoxins. Model systems are described in which these neurotoxins have been extremely valuable in developing an understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of secretion and electrophysiological events leading to altered cell function.;Comprehensive protocols are provided for the use of alpha toxin, apamin, batrachotoxin, botulina toxin, bungarotoxin, channel ligands: agonists and antagonists, capsaicin, charybdotoxin, ciguatoxin, "clostridium botulinum" neurotoxin, cholera toxin (choleragen), conotoxin, dendrotoxin, endothelin, fasciculin, geographutoxin, latrotoxin, natural toxins, neosurugatoxin, palytoxin, pertussis toxin, resinferatoxin, sarafotoxin, scorpoin toxin, snake venom toxins.
