Methods library · Cells and imaging
Cell, primary and explant culture
Also called tissue culture, co-culture, primary culture, Explant culture
Growing cells and pieces of tissue outside the body, alone or with chosen partners, under controlled conditions.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
21 lessons use this method.
Developmental Neuroscience
- Harrison's Living Axon and the Growth Cone
- The Organizer: Spemann and Mangold
- Neural Induction: The Default Model
- Neurulation and Neural Tube Defects
- Local Organizers: The Midbrain-Hindbrain Boundary
- Ventral to Dorsal: Sonic Hedgehog and BMP in the Neural Tube
- One Axon, Many Dendrites: Neuronal Polarity
- Topographic Maps: Sperry's Eye and Eph Gradients
- Neurotrophins, Trk Receptors and p75
- The Death Machinery in Neurons
- Competition: How a Target Picks Its Neurons
- Pruning Without Dying: Axons That Cut Themselves Back
- Synapses in the Brain: Adhesion, Scaffolds and Astrocytes
- Synapse Elimination: One Muscle Fiber, One Axon
- Microglia and Complement Prune Synapses
- Where Glia Come From
- Myelination: Wrapping the Axon