Electrophysiological measurements in three-dimensional in vivo-mimetic organotypic cell cultures: Preliminary studies with hen embryo brain spheroids

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 404, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 33-38

  Uroukov, Ivan S ^a   Ma, Mingwen ^a   Bull, Larry ^b   Purcell, Wendy M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Cell culture; Multi electrode array; Neuronal networks; Spike generation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; GLIA CELL; HEN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHEROID CELL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CHICK EMBRYO; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OVUM;

EID: 33745919255     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.05.016     Document Type: Article

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