Isolating single primary rat hippocampal neurons and astrocytes on ultra-thin patterned parylene-C/silicon dioxide substrates

Biomaterials

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2566-2574

  Unsworth, Charles P ^a   Delivopoulos, Evangelos ^b   Gillespie, Trudi ^c   Murray, Alan F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Brain cell; Cell patterning; Neuron; Parylene C; Primary rat cell

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; CELL PATTERNING; PARYLENE C; PRIMARY RAT CELL;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CELLS; NEURONS; SILICA; SUBSTRATES;

CELL CULTURE;

PARYLENE C; POLYMER; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STIMULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICON DIOXIDE; XYLENES;

RATTUS;

EID: 79251601010     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.12.017     Document Type: Article

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