A procedure for culturing astrocytes from white matter and the application of the siRNA technique for silencing the expression of their specific marker, S100A4

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 59-65

  Kozlova, Elena N ^a   Takenaga, Keizo ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHIBA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; In vitro; siRNA; White matter

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CELL MARKER; S100 A4 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL LINE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; IN VITRO STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POVIDONE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; S100 PROTEINS; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 20444482538     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresprot.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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