Use of Aplysin neurons for the study of cellular alterations and the resealing of transected axons in vitro

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-102

  Spira, M E ^a,b   Dormann, A ^a,b   Ashery, U ^a,b   Gabso, M ^a,b   Gitler, D ^a,b   Benbassat, D ^a,b   Oren, R ^a,b   Ziv, N E ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Calcium; Electrophysiology; Fura 2; Membrane capacitance; SBFI; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

FURA 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; APLYSIA; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS;

EID: 0030596920     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(96)00024-6     Document Type: Article

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