Separation of dorsal and ventral dopaminergic neurons from embryonic rat mesencephalon by buoyant density fractionation: Disassembling pattern in the ventral midbrain

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Silverman, W F ^a   Alfahel Kakunda, A ^a   Dori, A ^a   Barker, J L ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Cell separation; Development; Dopamine; Pattern; Percoll; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FRACTIONATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL SEPARATION; CENTRIFUGATION, ZONAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EMBRYO; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; POVIDONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICON DIOXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032806938     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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