Primary microglia isolation from mixed glial cell cultures of neonatal rat brain tissue

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 66, 2012, Pages

  Tamashiro, Tami T ^a   Dalgard, Clifton Lee ^a   Byrnes, Kimberly R ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Immunology; Isolation; Issue 66; Microglia; Mixed glial cell; Molecular biology; Neurodegenerative disease; Neuroscience; Physiology; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; METHODOLOGY; MICROGLIA; NEWBORN; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROGLIA; NEUROGLIA; RATS;

EID: 84868275730     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3814     Document Type: Article

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