“…After blocking for 2 h at room temperature with 5% milk in Tris-buffered saline, pH 7.6 containing 0.1% Tween 20 (TBS-T), the membranes were incubated overnight at 4 • C with the different antibodies, namely: widely used mouse anti-␣-tubulin (1:10,000 dilution, from Sigma-Portugal) and goat anti-glyceraldeheyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH, 1:1000 dilution, from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Alfagene, Portugal); previously validated (see Pinheiro et al, 2003) mouse anti-synaptophysin (1:1000, from Sigma) and mouse anti-SNAP-25 (1:10,000, from Sigma); previously used (e.g. Köfalvi et al, 2005) guinea-pig anti-vesicular GABA transporter (vGAT, 1:1000, from Calbiochem, PGHitec, Portugal), guinea-pig anti-vesicular glutamate transporters types 1 and 2 (vGluT1 and vGluT2, 1:5000, from Chemicon) and guinea-pig anti-vesicular acetylcholine transporter (vAChT, 1:500, from Chemicon); previously validated rabbit anti-adenosine A 1 receptor (1:1000, from Affinity Bioreagents, Golden, USA; see Rebola et al, 2003b), goat anti-adenosine A 2A receptor (1:500 dilution, from Santa Cruz Biotechnology; see Rebola et al, 2005), rabbit L-15 Cterminus anti-CB 1 receptor (1:500, generously supplied by Dr. Ken Mackie, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA; see Köfalvi et al, 2005), rabbit anti-mGluR5 receptor (1:3000, from Upstate Biotechnology; see Rodrigues et al, 2005b) and goat anti-P2Y1 receptor (1:200, from Santa Cruz Biotechnology; see Rodrigues et al, 2005a). After four washing periods for 10 min with TBS-T containing 0.5% milk, the membranes were incubated with the alkaline phosphatase-conjugated anti-goat, anti-rabbit, anti-mouse or anti-guinea-pig secondary antibody (1:2000, from Amersham) in TBS-T containing 1% milk during 90 min at room temperature.…”