High Ca2+-phosphate transfection efficiency in low-density neuronal cultures

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 695-700

  Jiang, Min ^a   Chen, Gong ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL;

CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 34247351646     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.86     Document Type: Article

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