The effect of dimensionality on growth and differentiation of neural progenitors from different regions of fetal rat brain in vitro: 3-dimensional spheroid versus 2-dimensional monolayer culture

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-55

  Lu, Haixia ^a   Searle, Karren ^b   Liu, Yong ^a   Parker, Terry ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 Dimensional monolayer; 3 Dimensional spheroid; differentiation; Dimensionality; growth; Neural progenitors

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TISSUE; CANCER INVASION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FETUS; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPHEROID CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPHEROID; TWO DIMENSIONAL MONOLAYER CULTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; FETUS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EPICOCCUM; RATTUS;

EID: 84862782060     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330794     Document Type: Article

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