Carbon nanotubes: Artificial nanomaterials to engineer single neurons and neuronal networks

ACS Chemical Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 611-618

  Fabbro, Alessandra ^a   Bosi, Susanna ^a   Ballerini, Laura ^a   Prato, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TETRODOTOXIN;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL FUNCTION; DEPOLARIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROELECTRODE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SYNAPSES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84865063085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cn300048q     Document Type: Review

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