Isolation of high-purity myenteric plexus from adult human and mouse gastrointestinal tract

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Grundmann, David ^a   Klotz, Markus ^a   Rabe, Holger ^a   Glanemann, Matthias ^b   Schäfer, Karl Herbert ^a,c  

^a ENS Group University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern Zweibrücken   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; MOUSE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SURGERY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MICE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 84925356615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09226     Document Type: Article

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