Elevated temperature during slicing enhances acute slice preparation quality

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Shiwei ^a   Uusisaari, Marylka Y ^a,b  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute slice preparation; Cerebellar Nuclei; Cerebellum; Mature animals

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PERINATAL PERIOD; PURKINJE CELL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84876001330     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00048     Document Type: Article

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