Part I: Biochemical, Proteomic, and Computational Tools

1. Detection of Cell Surface Dopamine Receptors

Jiping Xiao and Clare Bergson

2. Methods for the Study of Dopamine Receptors Within Lipid Rafts of Kidney Cells

Peiying Yu, Van Anthony Villar, and Pedro A. Jose

3. Methods of Dopamine Research in Retina Cells

Ana Lucia Marques Ventura, Fernando Garcia de Mello, and Ricardo Augusto de Melo Reis

4. Capture of D2 Dopamine Receptor Signaling Complexes in Striatal Cells for Mass Spectrometry Proteomic Analysis

Nadine Kabbani and Jacob C. Nordman

5. Modeling Spatial Aspects of Intracellular Dopamine Signaling

Kim Blackwell, Lane J. Wallace, BoHung Kim, Rodrigo Oliveira, and Wonryull Koh

Part II: Cellular Imaging

6. A Biophysical Approach for the Study of Dopamine Receptor Oligomerization

Sylwia Lukasiewicz, Agata Faron-Górecka, and Marta Dziedzicka-Wasylewska

7. Detection of Receptor Heteromers Involving Dopamine Receptors by the Sequential BRET-FRET (SRET) Technology

Gemma Navarro, Peter J. McCormick, Josefa Mallol, Carme Lluís, Rafael Franco, Antoni Cortés, Vicent Casadó, Enric I. Canela, and Sergi Ferré

8. BRET Approaches to Characterize Dopamine and TAAR1 Receptor Pharmacology and Signaling

Stefano Espinoza, Bernard Masri, Ali Salahpour, and Raul R. Gainetdinov

9. Dopaminergic Regulation of Dendritic Calcium: Fast Multi-Site Calcium Imaging

Wen-Liang Zhou, Katerina D. Ikonomu, Shaina M. Short, and Srdjan D. Antic

Part III: Genetic Manipulation in Cells and Organisms

10. Functional Analysis of Human D1 and D5 Dopaminergic G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Lessons from Mutagenesis of a Conserved Serine Residue in the Cytosolic End of Transmembrane Region 6

Bianca Plouffe and Mario Tiberi

11. A Molecular Genetic Approach to Uncovering the Differential Functions of Dopamine D2 Receptor Isoforms

Yanyan Wang, Toshikuni Sasaoka, and Mai T. Dang

12. Genomic Strategies for the Identification of Dopamine Receptor Genes in Zebrafish

Wendy Boehmler, Jessica Petko, Victor A. Canfield, and Robert Levenson

13. Application of Cell-Specific Isolation to the Study of Dopamine Signaling in Drosophila

Eswar Prasad R. Iyer, Srividya Chandramouli Iyer, and Daniel N. Cox

Part IV: Electrochemical, Physiological, and Behavioral Analysis

14. Regulation of Dopamine Transporter Expression by Neuronal Activity

Shalini Padmanabhan, Thach Pham, and Balakrishna M. Prasad

15. Monitoring Somatodendritic and Axonal Dopamine Release Using Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry in Brain Slices

Jyoti C. Patel and Margaret E. Rice

16. Real-Time Chemical Measurements of Dopamine Release in the Brain

James G. Roberts, Leyda Z. Lugo-Morales, Philip L. Loziuk, and Leslie A. Sombers

17. The MPTP/Probenecid Model of Progressive Parkinson's Disease

Anna R. Carta, Ezio Carboni, and Saturnino Spiga