Labeling and identification of living donor cells in brain slices of recipient hemiparkinsonian model rats for physiological recordings: Methods for physiological assessments of neural transplantation

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 309-317

  Fukuda, Atsuo ^a   Kumazaki, Michiko ^a   Onizuka, Keiichiro ^b   Fujimoto, Ichiro ^a   Hida, Hideki ^a   Shimano, Yasunobu ^a   Muramatsu, Kanji ^a   Nakajima, Keiya ^c   Nishino, Hitoo ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c Center of Japan Biological Chemistry   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0029944770     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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