TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Technology of Patch Clamp ElectrodesJames L. Rae and Richard A. Levis2. Whole Cell Patch-Clamp RecordingsHarald Sontheimer and Michelle L. Olsen3. Single-Channel RecordingDavid J.A. Wyllie4. Combined Fluorometric and Electrophysiological RecordingsHartmut Schmidt and Jens Eilers5. Combining Uncaging Techniques with Patch Clamp Recording and OpticalPhysiologyDmitry V. Sarkisov and Samuel S.-H. Wang6. Visually-Guided Patch-Clamp Recordings in Brain SlicesJames R. Moyer, Jr. and Thomas H. Brown7. In Vivo Patch-Clamp TechniqueHidemasa Furue, Toshihiko Katafuchi and Megumu Yoshimura8. Techniques for Perforated Patch RecordingsConstantine Sarantopoulos9. Fast-Drug ApplicationManfred Heckmann and Stefan Hallermann10. Pipette Internal Perfusion: Methods and ApplicationsSrinivas M. Tipparaju and Aruni Bhatnagar11. Loose-Patch Clamp MethodHector G. Marrero and Jose R. Lemos12. Recording Currents from Channels and Transporters in MacropatchesGuiying Cui, Matthew D. Fuller, Christopher H. Thompson, Zhi-RenZhang and Nael McCarty13. Structure-Function Analyses of Single Cells by CombiningPatch-Clamp Techniques with RT-PCRGerald Seifert and Christian Steinhauser14. Planar Patch ClampingJan C. Behrends and Niels Fertig15. Automated Glass Pipette-based Patch Clamp TechniquesMichael Fejtl, Uwe Czubayko, Alexander Hummer, Tobias Krauterand Albrecht Lepple-Wienhues