Organotypic brain slice cultures as a model to study angiogenesis of brain vessels

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Hutter Schmid, Bianca ^a   Kniewallner, Kathrin M ^a   Humpel, Christian ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capillary; Organotypic slice; Pericyte; Vascular; Vessel; Vibrosection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964782306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2015.00052     Document Type: Article

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