Primary culture of bovine chromaffin cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1248-1253

  O'Connor, Daniel T ^a,b   Mahata, Sushil K ^a,b   Mahata, Manjula ^a   Jiang, Qijiao ^a   Hook, Vivian Y ^a   Taupenot, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMAFFIN CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMAFFIN CELLS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 34250357314     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.136     Document Type: Article

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