Micropit: A new cell culturing approach for characterization of solitary astrocytes and small networks of these glial cells

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2008, Pages

  Lee, William ^a   Malarkey, Erik B ^a   Reyes, Reno C ^a   Parpura, Vladimir ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Ca2+ oscillations; Glial glial interactions; Glutamate release; Microglia

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052198865     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.16.002.2008     Document Type: Article

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