Primary culture of Caenorhabditis elegans developing embryo cells for electrophysiological, cell biological and molecular studies

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1003-1012

  Strange, Kevin ^a   Christensen, Michael ^a   Morrison, Rebecca ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TYPE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 34248529792     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.143     Document Type: Article

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