The development of intracerebral cell-suspension implants is influenced by the grafting medium

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 573-583

  Watts, Colin ^a,b   Caldwell, Maeve A ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graft survival; Neural transplantation; Preparation media; Survival in vitro

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL VIABILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; GRAFT SURVIVAL; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CULTURE MEDIA; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031768858     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(98)00034-7     Document Type: Article

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