Working with Xenopus spinal neurons in live cell culture

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2003, Issue 71, 2003, Pages 129-156

  Gómez, Timothy M ^c   Harrigan, Dan ^a   Henley, John ^b   Robles, Estuardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION CHAMBER; FEMALE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; FEMALE; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; STEM CELLS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 1542569573     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(03)01008-2     Document Type: Review

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