Sprouting and functional recovery in co-cultures between old and young hippocampal organotypic slices

Neuroscience

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1127-1136

  Stoppini, L ^a   Parisi, L ^a   Oropesa, C ^a   Muller, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biocytin; Hippocampus; In vitro model; Lesion; Rat; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LYSINE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE REGENERATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030751160     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00132-2     Document Type: Article

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