Human primary mixed brain cultures: Preparation, differentiation, characterization and application to neuroscience research

Molecular Brain

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ray, Balmiki ^a   Chopra, Nipun ^a   Long, Justin M ^a   Lahiri, Debomoy K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; Amyloid; Cholinergic; CNS; Confocal microscopy; Development; Dopaminergic; Glutamatergic; Human brain culture

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; NUCLEIC ACID; TAU PROTEIN; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL LYSATE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIXED CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROBLAST; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; STAIN; STEM CELL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; STAINING; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGLIA; NEUROSCIENCES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RESEARCH; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84908454700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17566606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13041-014-0063-0     Document Type: Article

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