The growth cones of living neurons probed by the atomic force microscope

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 736, Issue , 2011, Pages 243-257

  Ricci, Davide ^a,b   Grattarola, Massimo ^b   Tedesco, Mariateresa ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AFM; Arborizations; Force maps; Indentation; Living cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; GROWTH CONE; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPINAL CORD; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; GROWTH CONES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 80054835919     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-105-5_16     Document Type: Chapter

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