A microfluidic culture platform for CNS axonal injury, regeneration and transport

Nature Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 599-605

  Taylor, Anne M ^a   Blurton Jones, Mathew ^b   Rhee, Seog Woo ^a   Cribbs, David H ^b,c   Cotman, Carl W ^b,c   Jeon, Neon Li ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROFLUIDICS; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23144439234     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth777     Document Type: Article

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