Purification and culture of nerve growth factor receptor (p75)-expressing basal forebrain cholinergic neurons

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-40

  Schnitzler, Aletta C ^a   Lopez Coviella, Ignacio ^a   Blusztajn, Jan Krzysztof ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN P75;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; DISSECTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEURONS; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SEPTUM OF BRAIN;

MURINAE;

EID: 38149028515     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.477     Document Type: Article

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