1. Autonomic Nervous System In Vitro: Studying Tonically Active Neurons Controlling Vagal Outflow in Rodent Brainstem Slices
Stefan Trapp and Klaus Ballanyi
2. Anatomically 'Calibrated' Isolated Respiratory Networks from Newborn Rodents
Araya Ruangkittisakul, Bogdan Panaitescu, Lucia Secchia, Nicoleta Bobocea, Chase Kantor, Junya Kuribayashi, Makito Iizuka, and Klaus Ballanyi
3. Physiological Properties of Human Fetal Cortex In Vitro
Anna R. Moore, Wen-Liang Zhou, Igor Jakovcevski, Nada Zecevic, and Srdjan D. Antic
4. Histological Characterization of Physiologically Determined Fast-Spiking Interneurons in Slices of Primate Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Kenneth N. Fish, Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, Aleksey V. Zaitsev, and David A. Lewis
5. Neural Circuits Underlying Circadian Oscillations in Mammals: Clocks in a Dish
Takahiro J. Nakamura, Stephan Michel, Gene D. Block, and Christopher S. Colwell
6. Osmoregulatory Circuits in Slices and En Bloc Preparations of Rodent Hypothalamus
Tevye J. Stachniak, Jessica R. Sudbury, Eric Trudel, Katrina Y. Choe, Sorana Ciura, and Charles W. Bourque
7. Establishing In Vivo-Like Activity in Rat Cerebellar Cells Maintained In Vitro
Bruce E. McKay, Reza Tadayonnejad, Dustin M. Anderson, Jordan D.T. Engbers, Fernando R. Fernandez, Mircea Iftinca, and Ray W. Turner
8. Spontaneous Rhythmic Activity in the Adult Cerebral Cortex In Vitro
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
9. Living Human Brain Slices: Network Analysis Using Voltage Sensitive Dyes
Tilman Broicher and Erwin-Josef Speckmann
10. Intact In Vitro Preparations of the Neonatal Rodent Cortex: Analysis of Cellular Properties and Network Activity
Heiko J. Luhmann and Werner Kilb
11. Spontaneous Neural Network Oscillations in Hippocampus, Cortex, and Locus Coeruleus of Newborn Rat and Piglet Brain Slices
Chase Kantor, Bogdan Panaitescu, Junya Kuribayashi, Araya Ruangkittisakul, Igor Jovanovic, Victoria Leung, Tze-Fun Lee, Dave MacTavish, Jack Jhamandas, Po-Yin Cheung, and Klaus Ballanyi
12. Neuronal Networks in the In Vitro Isolated Guinea Pig Brain
Marco De Curtis, Laura Librizzi, Laura Uva, and Vadym Gnatkovsky
13. The Study of Respiratory Chemoreflexes Using a Novel Dual-Perfused Rodent Preparation
Trevor A. Day and Richard J.A. Wilson
14. Defined Medium Organotypic Cultures of Spinal Cord Put 'Pain in a Dish'
James E. Biggs, Van B. Lu, Helena J. Kim, Aaron Lai, Kathryn G. Todd, Klaus Ballanyi, William F. Colmers, and Peter A. Smith
15. Rodent Isolated Spinal Cord Preparations to Examine Motor Output
Sravan Mandadi, Stan T. Nakanishi, Pengcheng Han, Jen Humphreys, and Patrick J. Whelan
Stefan Trapp and Klaus Ballanyi
