Buried microchannels in photopolymer for delivering of solutions to neurons in a network

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 48, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 356-361

  Heuschkel, Mark Oliver ^a   Guérin, Louis J ^a   Buisson, Bruno ^b   Bertrand, Daniel ^b   Renaud, Philippe ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microchannels; Microfluidics; Neural cell arrays; Photopolymer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347649424     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(98)00071-9     Document Type: Article

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