In vitro bioengineered model of cortical brain tissue

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1362-1373

  Chwalek, Karolina ^a   Tang Schomer, Min D ^b   Omenetto, Fiorenzo G ^a,c   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN GEL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MESSENGER RNA; SILK; COLLAGEN;

3D CORTICAL BRAIN TISSUE MODEL; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL BODY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SEEDING; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EMBEDDING; EMBRYO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; RNA ISOLATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BIOENGINEERING; BOMBYX; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOENGINEERING; BOMBYX; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLLAGEN; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILK; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84940543396     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.091     Document Type: Article

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