Investigations in Membrane Biochemistry II

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This course will involve training in how to design, conduct and analyze independent research in Membrane Biochemistry. This course will give students the opportunity to prepare membrane cell components such as mitochondria, plasma membranes and microsomes or membrane derivatives such as liposomes, synaptosomes or synaptoneurosomes and to study the biological activities of proteins (i.e. receptors, ion channels) associated with the membranes. Ligand binding, ion uptake, enzyme activity, HPLC and EPR will be among the procedures employed for these investigations. These studies will be expected to answer new questions and to generate novel data, as opposed to reproducing experiments that have been performed before.