Part I: TRPs and Cardiovascular Disease
1. TRPs to Cardiovascular Disease
José C. González-Cobos, Xuexin Zhang, Rajender K. Motiani, Kelly E. Harmon, and Mohamed Trebak
2. Anemic Zebrafish Models of Cardiomyopathy
Xiaojing Sun and Xiaolei Xu
3. Methods to Study the Effects of TRP Channel Drugs on Vascular Endothelial Cell Function
Yan Ma, Yung-Wui Tjong, and Xiaoqiang Yao
4. Atherosclerosis Models with Cell-Mediated Calcification
Beili Zhu
5. Models of Hypertension and Blood Pressure Recording
Luciana Aparecida Campos and Ovidiu Constantin Baltatu
6. Balloon Injury in Rats as a Model for Studying TRP Channel Contribution to Vascular Smooth Muscle Remodeling
Wei Zhang and Mohamed Trebak
Part II: TRPs and the Brain
7. TRP Channels in the Brain
Antonio Reboreda Prieto
8. Investigation of the Possible Role of TRP Channels in Schizophrenia
Loris A. Chahl
9. Investigating Diseases of Dopaminergic Neurons and Melanocytes Using Zebrafish
Amanda Decker and Robert Cornell
10. A Practical Guide to Evaluating Anxiety-Related Behavior in Rodents
Caitlin J. Riebe and Carsten T. Wotjak
11. Rodent Models of Conditioned Fear: Behavioral Measures of Fear and Memory
Jennifer L. McGuire, Jennifer L. Coyner, and Luke R. Johnson
12. Chick Anxiety-Depression Screening Model
Stephen W. White and Kenneth J. Sufka
13. A Clinically Relevant Thromboembolic Stroke Model in the Aged Rat
Ryan C. Turner, Alisa S. Elliott, Jason D. Huber, and Charles L. Rosen
14. Use of Cell-Stretch System to Examine the Characteristics of Mechanosensor Channels: Axonal Growth/Neuroregeneration Studies
Koji Shibasaki
15. Methods in Neuronal Growth Cone Biology
Robert J. Gasperini and Lisa Foa
Part III: TRPs and Skin
16. Transient Receptor Potential Channels and Pruritus
Heike Benecke, Janine Wäring, Tobias Lotts, and Sonja Ständer
17. Skin Sensitivity Studies
Laurent Misery
18. Hair Follicle Culture
Michael P. Philpott
Part IV: TRPs and Metabolic Disorders
19. Animal Models for Type 1 Diabetes
Anish Suri and Matteo Levisetti
20. Type 2 Diabetes Models
Dorte X. Gram
21. Using Diet to Induce Metabolic Disease in Rodents
Angela M. Gajda, Michael A. Pellizzon, and Matthew R. Ricci
22. Rodent Models to Evaluate Anti-Obesity Drugs
Sharon Cheetham and Helen Jackson
Part V: TRPs: Colitis, Cancer, Thermosensation, and Musculoskeletal Disorders
23. Experimental Colitis Models
Patrick A. Hughes, Stuart M. Brierley, Joel Castro, Andrea M. Harrington, and L. Ashley Blackshaw
24. Tumor Xenograft Models to Study the Role of TRP Channels in Tumorigenesis
V'yacheslav Lehen'kyi, Sergii Kha