A microchip for quantitative analysis of CNS axon growth under localized biomolecular treatments

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 221, Issue , 2014, Pages 166-174

  Park, Jaewon ^a   Kim, Sunja ^b   Park, Su Inn ^c   Choe, Yoonsuck ^c   Li, Jianrong ^b   Han, Arum ^a,c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated measurement; Axon growth rate; Compartmentalized culture; Localized biomolecular treatment; Microfluidic culture platform; Quantitative axon length analysis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; MATRIGEL; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHIP; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EMBRYO; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROCHIP; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEURONAL SOMATA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT; AXON GROWTH RATE; COMPARTMENTALIZED CULTURE; LOCALIZED BIOMOLECULAR TREATMENT; MICROFLUIDIC CULTURE PLATFORM; QUANTITATIVE AXON LENGTH ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84887342820     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.09.018     Document Type: Article

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