Characterisation of transverse slice culture preparations of postnatal rat spinal cord: Preservation of defined neuronal populations

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 377-392

  Stavridis, Stavros I ^a   Dehghani, Faramarz ^a   Korf, Horst Werner ^a   Hailer, Nils P ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Microglia; Slice culture; Spinal cord; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LECTIN; NESTIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EPENDYMA CELL; GRAY MATTER; GRIFFONIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROGLIA; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LECTINS; MICROGLIA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA; GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 21544469717     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-004-0743-4     Document Type: Article

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