In vitro isolation and cell culture of vestibular inner ear melanocytes

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 191-200

  Hanke, Marcos Sanchez ^a   Kief, Sabine ^a   Leuwer, Rudolf ^a   Koch, Ulrich ^a   Moll, Ingrid ^a   Brandner, Johanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Fibroblasts; Melanocytes; Tyrosinase; Tyrosinase related protein 1; Vestibular labyrinth

Indexed keywords

MELANOMA ANTIGEN 1; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; TYROSINASE RELATED PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENDRITE; EPIDERMIS CELL; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER EAR; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EAR, INNER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; SHEEP;

EID: 20844433291     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084840     Document Type: Article

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