Integration of human model neurons (NT2) into embryonic chick nervous system

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 496-504

  Podrygajlo, Grzegorz ^a,b   Wiegreffe, Christoph ^c,d   Scaal, Martin ^c   Bicker, Gerd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motoneuron; Myotube; Neural tube; Neurite growth; Neuronal differentiation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; CELL MARKER; SYNAPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINE; CHICK EMBRYO; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MYOTUBE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURAL TUBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BUNGAROTOXINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHICK EMBRYO; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; NEURAL TUBE; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSINS;

EID: 75149173080     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.22193     Document Type: Article

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