Assessing neural stem cell motility using an agarose gel-based microfluidic device

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Wong, Kevin ^a   Ayuso Sacido, Angel ^b,c   Ahyow, Patrick ^a   Darling, Andrew ^a   Boockvar, John A ^b   Wu, Mingming ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Cell Morphology Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Brain tumor cell; Cell biology; Chemotaxis; Egfr; Issue 12; Microfluidic device; Motility; Neural stem cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055105589     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/674     Document Type: Article

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