Neuronal-enriched cultures from embryonic rat ventral mesencephalon for pharmacological studies of dopamine neurons

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-132

  Pardo, Beatriz ^a   Paíno, Carlos Luis ^a   Casarejos, María José ^a   Mena, María Angeles ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell type marker; Dopamine neuron; Mesencephalic cell culture, rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; TRITIUM;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID UPTAKE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL VIABILITY; DOPAMINE UPTAKE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE PREPARATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DOPAMINE; EMBRYO; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROLOGY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0038260916     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(96)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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