Functional imaging of neuron–Astrocyte interactions in a compartmentalized microfluidic device

Microsystems and Nanoengineering

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Gao, Yandong ^a   Broussard, Joey ^b   Haque, Amranul ^a   Revzin, Alexander ^a   Lin, Tian ^b  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Biosensors; Microfluidics; Neuron astrocyte interactions; Neurons; Surface micropatterning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007398062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20557434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/micronano.2015.45     Document Type: Article

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