Long-term microfluidic cultures of myotube microarrays for high-throughput focal stimulation

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1092-1104

  Tourovskaia, Anna ^a   Figueroa Masot, Xavier ^a   Folch, Albert ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MUSCLE CELL;

AGRIN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROCHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDICS; MUSCLE FIBERS;

EID: 34347253932     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.123     Document Type: Article

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