Engineering an integrated cellular interface in three-dimensional hydrogel cultures permits monitoring of reciprocal astrocyte and neuronal responses

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 526-536

  East, Emma ^a   Golding, Jon P ^a   Phillips, James B ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GELS; HYDROGELS; NEURONS; TISSUE;

3-D CELL CULTURE; 3-D ENVIRONMENTS; 3D CULTURE; 3D IMAGE ANALYSIS; AVOIDED CROSSINGS; CELL POPULATIONS; CELL TYPES; CELLULAR INTERFACES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEINS; GLIAL SCAR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MECHANICAL BARRIER; NEURONAL GROWTH; NEURONAL RESPONSE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; TISSUE MODELS; WILD TYPES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RATTUS;

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIOSIS; HYDROGEL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITE; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROGELS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84862854720     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2011.0587     Document Type: Article

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