This book describes modified by authors methods: measurement of aminothiols (glutathione, homocysteine, cysteine), neuroactive amino acids (glutamate, aspartate, GABA, taurine) by HPLC; ninhydrin method of determination of glutamate decarboxylase activity and free amino acids in cerebrospinal fluid and brain tissue using sulfocationites; determination of total globulins, albumins, peptides, amino acids using Sephadex; trioxyindole method of catecholamine measurement; fluorimetric method of detection of histamine, 5-hydroxytriptamine, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid, homo-vanillic acid; kynuramine method of monoamine oxidase activity measurement; and also methodology of clinical biochemical investigations.
For neurochemists, biochemists, neurologists, and also professionals in related specialties.
