Available techniques
- Brain collection for psychiatric diseases and addiction disorders.
- Biochemical and functional in vitro techniques for the study of neurotransmitter receptors (ligand binding, scintillation proximity assays (SPA), intra-cellular signalling responses, etc.).
- Protein assessment techniques (western-blot, immunohistochemistry, ELISA, etc.) and metabolites.
- Analysis of mRNA integrity (RIN number determination) and expression by quantitative RT-PCR.
- Stereotactic surgery in rat and mouse.
- Cerebral microdialysis in awake animal.
- Electrochemical HPLC detection of monoamines and aminoacids.
- Clinical microdialysis in human brain.
- Ischemia and reperfusion techniques in rat brain.
- Behavioural animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders and response to psychopharmacological treatments: locomotor activity, anxiety, cognitive impairment, social interaction, stress, PPI, etc.
- Cell culture of olfactory neuroepithelium and other cell types from patients.