Cryopreservation of brain tissue for primary culture

Experimental Animals

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 383-390

  Negishi, Takayuki ^a   Ishii, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kawamura, Seiji ^a   Kuroda, Yoichiro ^b   Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Cerebral tissue; Cryopreservation; Primary culture; Rat

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0036653579     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.51.383     Document Type: Article

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