Direct live monitoring of heterotypic axon-axon interactions in vitro

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 351-363

  Wang, Liang ^a   Marquardt, Till ^a  

^a EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

MUS;

EID: 84861740483     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.442     Document Type: Review

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