Edited and authored by international experts on voltage and patch clamping, this volume is designed to help anyone undertaking experiments requiring the use of these techniques. The only book of its kind to bring together this wealth of information on theory as well as practical techniques, this is a volume that no one involved in voltage and patch clamping can afford to be without.

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1. Introduction.- 2. Useful Circuits for Voltage Clamping With Microelectrodes.- 3. Microelectrode Shielding.- 4. Conventional Voltage Clamping With Two Intracellular Microelectrodes.- 5. Optimal Voltage Clamping With Single Microelectrode.- 6. High-Resolution Patch-Clamp Techniques.- 7. Voltage Clamp and Internal Perfusion With Suction-Pipette Method.- 8. Microelectrode Voltage Clamp: The Cardiac Purkinje Fiber.- 9. Space-Clamp Problems When Voltage Clamping Branched Neurons With Intracellular Microelectrodes.- 10. Comparison of Voltage Clamps With Microelectrode and Sucrose-Gap Techniques.- 11. Voltage Clamping Small Cells.