Generation of an immortalized murine brain microvascular endothelial cell line as an in vitro blood brain barrier model

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 66, 2012, Pages

  Burek, Malgorzata ^a   Salvador, Ellaine ^a   Förster, Carola Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Brain; cEND; Immortalization; Immunology; In vitro cell culture models; Issue 66; Microvascular endothelial cells; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868279928     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4022     Document Type: Article

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