An improved method for culturing cerebellar Purkinje cells with differentiated dendrites under a mixed monolayer setting

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 192-198

  Furuya, Shigeki ^a   Makino, Asami ^a   Hirabayashi, Yoshio ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Cerebellar Purkinje cell; Dendritic differentiation; Glutamate receptor; Survival

Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; POLYORNITHINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; DENDRITIC CELL; EMBRYO; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DENDRITES; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE;

EID: 0031791601     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(98)00040-3     Document Type: Article

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