Culturing hippocampal neurons

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2406-2415

  Kaech, Stefanie ^a   Banker, Gary ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYLYSINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PREGNANCY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; NEURONS; POLYLYSINE; PREGNANCY; RATS;

EID: 34548864370     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.356     Document Type: Article

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