Ghrelin expression in dissociated cultures of the rat neocortex

2009 4th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 159-162

  Stoyanova, Irina I ^a   Wiertz, Remy F ^a   Rutten, Wim L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dissociated cortical neurons; Ghrelin development; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTIONS; CELL-TO-CELL INTERACTIONS; CORTICAL NEURONS; DISSOCIATED CORTICAL NEURONS; DISSOCIATED CULTURE; GHRELIN; GHRELIN DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH HORMONES; IN-CELL; IN-SITU; LEARNING; LEARNING AND MEMORY; MEMORY; NETWORK FORMATION; NETWORK FUNCTIONS; NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN RATS;

AMINES; CELL MEMBRANES; NEURONS;

CELL CULTURE;

EID: 70350212659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NER.2009.5109259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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