Rat fetal ventral mesencephalon grown as solid tissue cultures: Influence of culture time and BDNF treatment on dopamine neuron survival and function

Brain Research

Volumn 813, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 313-322

  Höglinger, Günter U ^a   Sautter, Jürgen ^a   Meyer, Morten ^a,d   Spenger, Christian ^b   Seiler, Rolf W ^a   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^c   Widmer, Hans R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Dopamine; Mesencephalic tissue culture; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FETUS CELL; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; FETUS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 17144448554     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01030-0     Document Type: Article

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