Three-dimensional culture of leech and snail ganglia for studies of neural repair

Invertebrate Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 173-182

  Babington, E J ^a   Vatanparast, J ^a,b   Verrall, J ^a   Blackshaw, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

3D culture; Axon regeneration; Leech; Microglia; Snail

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GANGLION; CELL LABELING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; GEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEECH; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; SNAIL; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE REPAIR;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GELS; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SNAILS;

EID: 27144538552     PISSN: 13542516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10158-005-0006-7     Document Type: Article

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