Cell culturing of Caenorhabditis elegans glial cells for the assessment of cytosolic Ca2+ dynamics

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 814, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-174

  Stout, Randy F ^a,b   Parpura, Vladimir ^a,c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Calcium; Cell culture; Cephalic sensilla; GCaMP; Glia; hlh 17 promoter

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855939785     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-452-0_12     Document Type: Article

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