Serum-free culture of dissociated, purified adult and aged sympathetic neurons and quantitative assays of growth and survival

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-160

  Orike, N ^a   Thrasivoulou, C ^a   Cowen, T ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Image analysis; In vitro; Neuron cell death; Neurons; Neurotrophins; Superior cervical ganglion

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SERUM; STAINING; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; NEUROTENSIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCHWANN CELLS; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION;

EID: 0035971774     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(01)00344-2     Document Type: Article

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