A new culturing strategy optimises Drosophila primary cell cultures for structural and functional analyses

Developmental Biology

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 459-478

  Küppers Munther, Barbara ^a   Letzkus, Johannes J ^a   Lüer, Karin ^a   Technau, Gerhard ^a   Schmidt, Hartmut ^b   Prokop, Andreas ^a,c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Cell cultures; Cell lineage; FM dyes; Neural stem cells; Plasticity; Synapse formation; Synaptic activity

Indexed keywords

DYE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SYNAPSE;

EID: 1942425204     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.01.038     Document Type: Article

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