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Measuring calcium signaling using genetically targetable fluorescent indicators pp1057 - 1065

Amy E Palmer & Roger Y Tsien

Published online: 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.172


Selection and characterization of large collections of peptide aptamers through optimized yeast two-hybrid procedures pp1066 - 1091

Marc B T Bickle, Eric Dusserre, Olivier Moncorgé, Hélène Bottin & Pierre Colas

Published online: 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.32


Long-term microfluidic cultures of myotube microarrays for high-throughput focal stimulation pp1092 - 1104

Anna Tourovskaia, Xavier Figueroa-Masot & Albert Folch

Published online: 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.123


Genetic transformation of tobacco NT1 cells with Agrobacterium tumefaciens pp1105 - 1111

Kristin J Mayo, Barbara J Gonzales & Hugh S Mason

Published online: 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.176


Sulforhodamine B colorimetric assay for cytotoxicity screening pp1112 - 1116

Vanicha Vichai & Kanyawim Kirtikara

Published online: 17 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.179


Assessing nest building in mice pp1117 - 1119

Robert MJ Deacon

Published online: 24 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.170


Generation of peptide–MHC class I complexes through UV-mediated ligand exchange pp1120 - 1132

Boris Rodenko, Mireille Toebes, Sine Reker Hadrup, Wim J E van Esch, Annemieke M Molenaar, Ton N M Schumacher & Huib Ovaa

Published online: 31 August 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.121


Transgenesis in fish: efficient selection of transgenic fish by co-injection with a fluorescent reporter construct pp1133 - 1139

Martina Rembold, Kajori Lahiri, Nicholas S. Foulkes & Joachim Wittbrodt

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.165


Stromal cell–dependent growth of B-1 B cell progenitors in the absence of direct contact pp1140 - 1144

Encarnacion Montecino-Rodriguez & Kenneth Dorshkind

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.163


Production of chimeras by aggregation of embryonic stem cells with diploid or tetraploid mouse embryos pp1145 - 1153

Guy S Eakin & Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.173


220-plex microRNA expression profile of a single cell pp1154 - 1159

Fuchou Tang, Petra Hajkova, Sheila C Barton, Dónal O'Carroll, Caroline Lee, Kaiqin Lao & M Azim Surani

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.161


Creating self-illuminating quantum dot conjugates pp1160 - 1164

Min-Kyung So, Andreas M Loening, Sanjiv S Gambhir & Jianghong Rao

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.162


Preparation of organotypic hippocampal slice cultures for long-term live imaging pp1165 - 1171

Nadine Gogolla, Ivan Galimberti, Vincenzo DePaola & Pico Caroni

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.168

See also: Protocol by Davie et al. | Protocol by Gogolla et al. | Protocol by De Simoni & MY Yu | Protocol by O'Brien & Lummis


Multiplex-fluorescence in situ hybridization for chromosome karyotyping pp1172 - 1184

Jochen B Geigl, Sabine Uhrig & Michael R Speicher

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.160


Determining the role of specific signaling molecules during lymphocyte development in vivo: instant transgenesis pp1185 - 1193

Rinako Nakagawa, Susan M Mason & Alison M Michie

Published online: 07 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.178


Using drug-discrimination techniques to study the abuse-related effects of psychoactive drugs in rats pp1194 - 1206

Marcello Solinas, Leigh V Panlilio, Zuzana Justinova, Sevil Yasar & Steven R Goldberg

Published online: 14 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.167


A radioactive uptake assay to measure ion transport across ion channel–containing liposomes pp1207 - 1212

Crina M Nimigean

Published online: 14 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.166


Expanded-bed adsorption immobilized-metal affinity chromatography pp1213 - 1222

Berend Tolner, Lisa Smith, Richard H J Begent & Kerry A Chester

Published online: 21 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.127


Long-term live imaging of neuronal circuits in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures pp1223 - 1226

Nadine Gogolla, Ivan Galimberti, Vincenzo DePaola & Pico Caroni

Published online: 21 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.169

See also: Protocol by Davie et al. | Protocol by Gogolla et al. | Protocol by De Simoni & MY Yu | Protocol by O'Brien & Lummis


Cerasome as an infusible and cell-friendly gene carrier: synthesis of cerasome-forming lipids and transfection using cerasome pp1227 - 1234

Yoshihiro Sasaki, Kazuki Matsui, Yasuhiro Aoyama & Jun-ichi Kikuchi

Published online: 21 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.182


Dendritic patch-clamp recording pp1235 - 1247

Jenny T Davie, Maarten H P Kole, Johannes J Letzkus, Ede A Rancz, Nelson Spruston, Greg J Stuart & Michael Häusser

Published online: 21 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.164

See also: Protocol by Gogolla et al. | Protocol by De Simoni & MY Yu | Protocol by O'Brien & Lummis


Using phiC31 integrase to make transgenic Xenopus laevis embryos pp1248 - 1257

Bryan G Allen & Daniel L Weeks

Published online: 21 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.183


Capping of CdSe–ZnS quantum dots with DHLA and subsequent conjugation with proteins pp1258 - 1266

Aaron R. Clapp, Ellen R. Goldman & Hedi Mattoussi

Published online: 28 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.184


In vivo single-cell electroporation for transfer of DNA and macromolecules pp1267 - 1272

Jennifer E Bestman, Rebecca C Ewald, Shu-Ling Chiu & Hollis T Cline

Published online: 28 September 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.186


Assaying RNA chaperone activity in vivo in bacteria using a ribozyme folding trap pp1273 - 1277

Silvia Prenninger, Renée Schroeder & Katharina Semrad

Published online: 05 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.189


Design and implementation of bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays for the visualization of protein interactions in living cells pp1278 - 1286

Tom K Kerppola

Published online: 05 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.201


Immunocytochemistry and quantification of protein colocalization in cultured neurons pp1287 - 1296

Marian W Glynn & A Kimberley McAllister

Published online: 05 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.220


Evaluating the biological relevance of putative enhancers using Tol2 transposon-mediated transgenesis in zebrafish pp1297 - 1305

Shannon Fisher, Elizabeth A Grice, Ryan M Vinton, Seneca L Bessling, Akihiro Urasaki, Koichi Kawakami & Andrew S McCallion

Published online: 12 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.230


Object recognition in rats and mice: a one-trial non-matching-to-sample learning task to study 'recognition memory' pp1306 - 1311

Rick A Bevins & Joyce Besheer

Published online: 12 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.205


High efficiency germ-line transformation of mosquitoes pp1312 - 1317

Neil F Lobo, John R Clayton, Malcolm J Fraser, Fotis C Kafatos & Frank H Collins

Published online: 19 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.221


A general user interface for prediction servers of proteins' post-translational modification sites pp1318 - 1321

Fengfeng Zhou, Yu Xue, Xuebiao Yao & Ying Xu

Published online: 26 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.209


Microcontact printing of axon guidance molecules for generation of graded patterns pp1322 - 1328

Anne C von Philipsborn, Susanne Lang, André Bernard, Jürgen Loeschinger, Christian David, Dirk Lehnert, Martin Bastmeyer & Friedrich Bonhoeffer

Published online: 26 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.251


Design, construction and in vitro testing of zinc finger nucleases pp1329 - 1341

Dana Carroll, J Jason Morton, Kelly J Beumer & David J Segal

Published online: 26 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.231


Quantification of starch in plant tissues pp1342 - 1345

Alison M Smith & Samuel C Zeeman

Published online: 26 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.232


Evolving proteins in mammalian cells using somatic hypermutation pp1346 - 1350

Lei Wang & Roger Y Tsien

Published online: 26 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.243


Two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis pp1351 - 1358

Surya Viswanathan, Mustafa Ünlü & Jonathan S Minden

Published online: 26 October 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.234


Non-SELEX: selection of aptamers without intermediate amplification of candidate oligonucleotides pp1359 - 1369

Maxim V Berezovski, Michael U Musheev, Andrei P Drabovich, Julia V Jitkova & Sergey N Krylov

Published online: 2 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.200


Developing multiplexed SNP assays with special reference to degraded DNA templates pp1370 - 1378

Juan J Sanchez & Phillip Endicott

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.247


Micropatterned cell cultures on elastic membranes as an in vitro model of myocardium pp1379 - 1391

Patrizia Camelliti, John O Gallagher, Peter Kohl & Andrew D McCulloch

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.203


Using tRNA-linked molecular beacons to image cytoplasmic mRNAs in live cells pp1392 - 1398

Musa M Mhlanga & Sanjay Tyagi

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.242


BrdU assay for neurogenesis in rodents pp1399 - 1405

J Martin Wojtowicz & Nohjin Kee

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.224


Generation of transgenic birds with replication-deficient lentiviruses pp1406 - 1411

Benjamin B Scott & Carlos Lois

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.187


Production and characterization of adeno-associated viral vectors pp1412 - 1428

Joshua C Grieger, Vivian W Choi & R Jude Samulski

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.207


Whole-body imaging with fluorescent proteins pp1429 - 1438

Robert M Hoffman & Meng Yang

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.223



Protein profiling by the combination of two independent mass spectrometry techniques pp1446 - 1452

Wei-Qiang Chen, Sung-Ung Kang & Gert Lubec

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.246


Carbon fiber technique for the investigation of single-cell mechanics in intact cardiac myocytes pp1453 - 1457

Seiryo Sugiura, Satoshi Nishimura, Soichiro Yasuda, Yumiko Hosoya & Kaoru Katoh

Published online: 02 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.241


Analysis of apoptosis by propidium iodide staining and flow cytometry pp1458 - 1461

Carlo Riccardi & Ildo Nicoletti

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.238


In situ hybridization for mRNA detection in Arabidopsis tissue sections pp1462 - 1467

Philip B Brewer, Marcus G Heisler, Jan Hejátko, Jir caroní Friml & Eva Benková

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.226


The lineaging of fluorescently-labeled Caenorhabditis elegans embryos with StarryNite and AceTree pp1468 - 1476

John Isaac Murray, Zhirong Bao, Thomas J Boyle & Robert H Waterston

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.222


Methods for MAG3 conjugation and 99mTc radiolabeling of biomolecules pp1477 - 1480

Yi Wang, Guozheng Liu & Donald J Hnatowich

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.262


Serial analysis of binding elements for human transcription factors pp1481 - 1493

Jiguo Chen

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.237


Tissue-specific and cell type–specific RNA interference in vivo pp1494 - 1501

Manjeet K Rao & Miles F Wilkinson

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.260


An ex vivo method for rapid generation of monoclonal antibodies (ADLib system) pp1502 - 1506

Hidetaka Seo, Shu-ichi Hashimoto, Kyoko Tsuchiya, Waka Lin, Takehiko Shibata & Kunihiro Ohta

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.248


Intracellular cytokine optimization and standard operating procedure pp1507 - 1516

Laurie Lamoreaux, Mario Roederer & Richard Koup

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.268


Diolistic labeling of neuronal cultures and intact tissue using a hand-held gene gun pp1517 - 1521

John A O'Brien & Sarah C R Lummis

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.258

See also: Protocol by Davie et al. | Protocol by Gogolla et al. | Protocol by Gogolla et al. | Protocol by De Simoni & MY Yu


Quality assurance for polychromatic flow cytometry pp1522 - 1530

Stephen P Perfetto, David Ambrozak, Richard Nguyen, Pratip Chattopadhyay & Mario Roederer

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.250


Analysis of translation initiation using a translation control reporter system pp1531 - 1537

Volker Wiesenthal, Achim Leutz & Cornelis F Calkhoven

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.274


Two-step metal affinity purification of double-tagged (NusA–His6) fusion proteins pp1538 - 1543

Ario de Marco

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.289


Negative detection of biomolecules separated in polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels pp1544 - 1551

Lila Castellanos-Serra & Eugenio Hardy

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.233


In vivo electroporation in the embryonic mouse central nervous system pp1552 - 1558

Tetsuichiro Saito

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.276


Quantification of mRNA using real-time RT-PCR pp1559 - 1582

Tania Nolan, Rebecca E Hands & Stephen A Bustin

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.236


Nonradioactive detection of telomerase activity using the telomeric repeat amplification protocol pp1583 - 1590

Brittney-Shea Herbert, Amelia E Hochreiter, Woodring E Wright & Jerry W Shay

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.239


Quantification of cerebral amyloid angiopathy and parenchymal amyloid plaques with Congo red histochemical stain pp1591 - 1595

Donna M Wilcock, Marcia N Gordon & Dave Morgan

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.277


A rodent model of myocardial infarction for testing the efficacy of cells and polymers for myocardial reconstruction pp1596 - 1609

Ngan F Huang, Richard E Sievers, Jennifer S Park, Qizhi Fang, Song Li & Randall J Lee

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.188


Selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE): quantitative RNA structure analysis at single nucleotide resolution pp1610 - 1616

Kevin A Wilkinson, Edward J Merino & Kevin M Weeks

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.249


RNAi screens in Caenorhabditis elegans in a 96-well liquid format and their application to the systematic identification of genetic interactions pp1617 - 1620

Ben Lehner, Julia Tischler & Andrew G Fraser

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.245


Methylation-specific digital karyotyping pp1621 - 1636

Min Hu, Jun Yao & Kornelia Polyak

Published online: 09 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.278


Standardized reagents and protocols for engineering zinc finger nucleases by modular assembly pp1637 - 1652

David A Wright, Stacey Thibodeau-Beganny, Jeffry D Sander, Ronnie J Winfrey, Andrew S Hirsh, Magdalena Eichtinger, Fengli Fu, Matthew H Porteus, Drena Dobbs, Daniel F Voytas & J Keith Joung

Published online: 16 November 2006 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2006.259


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