Three-dimensional guidance of DRG neurite outgrowth using multi-photon photo-ablation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 116-119

  Livnat, Noga ^a   Sarig Nadir, Offra ^a   Seliktar, Dror ^a   Shoham, Shy ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKED; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HYDROGEL MATRIX; IN-CHIP; IN-VITRO; MATRIX; MICRON-SCALE RESOLUTION; MULTIPHOTONS; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEURAL ENGINEERING; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; NEURITES; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL CONTROL; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PHOTOABLATION; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; SOLID-PHASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GUIDANCE;

ABLATION; CELL CULTURE; HYDROGELS; PHOTONS; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BRAIN;

EID: 70350233438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NER.2009.5109248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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