Long-term brain slice culturing in a microfluidic platform

15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2011, MicroTAS 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 1560-1563

  Vedarethinam, I ^a   Avaliani, N ^b   Tonnesen J ^b   Hansen, J ^c   Sabourin, D ^a   Dimaki, M ^a   Kokaia, M ^b   Dufva, M ^a   Svendsen, W E ^a   Emneus J ^a   Heiskanen, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AQUAPORIN A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain slice; Long term culture; Microfluidic tissue culture; Stem cell therapy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SLICE CULTURES; BRAIN SLICES; LONG-TERM CULTURE; MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS; MICROSCOPIC MONITORING; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); STEM CELL THERAPY; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

ESTERS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE CULTURE;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84883795932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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