Isolation and culture of adult human microglia within mixed glial cultures for functional experimentation and high-content analysis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-51

  Smith, Amy M ^a   Gibbons, Hannah M ^a   Lill, Claire ^a   Faull, Richard L M ^a   Dragunow, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

High content analysis; Human brain tissue; Mixed glial cultures; Phagocytosis; Primary human culture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL ASSAY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; CELL TYPE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROGLIA; MIXED CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE;

BRAIN; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MICROGLIA; NEUROGLIA;

EID: 84880102356     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-520-0_6     Document Type: Article

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