Fused cerebral organoids model interactions between brain regions

Nature Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 743-751

  Bagley, Joshua A ^a   Reumann, Daniel ^a   Bian, Shan ^a   Lévi Strauss, Julie ^a   Knoblich, Juergen A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; ORGANOIDS;

EID: 85026518796     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4304     Document Type: Article

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