Sentence examples for brain culture from inspiring English sources
Z-section steps of 1.7 μm × 8 and 2 μm × ~40 were used for imaging the dissociated cultured neurons and ex vivo brain culture, respectively.
In conclusion, our novel model provides an easy potent whole sagittal brain culture system that allows to study cholinergic and dopaminergic neurons together but also in close interaction with all other cells of the brain and with capillaries.
For ex vivo brain culture, the brain explants were mounted on a glass-bottom dish (35 mm MatTek petri dish, 20 mm microwell with 0.16/0.19 mm coverglass) in a fibrinogen clot prepared by adding thrombin (bovine thrombin, Sigma) to fibrinogen (bovine fibrinogen, Calbiochem) as previously described64.
The addition of PDF had no significant effect on 3 × 69-VNP expression in the culture prepared from the pdfr mutant larvae (Fig. 5b and e), confirming that the effect of PDF in vitro is specific and via PDFR, as in brain culture.
Human brain culture grown in a dish.
A human brain culture has been grown in a petri dish which has distinct brain regions.
Pașca, S. P. The rise of three-dimensional human brain cultures.
His group will work closely with co-investigator John Huguenard, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences, and collaborators at UCLA to seek abnormalities in cells derived in these 3-D brain cultures.
Scientists first developed miniature brains in test tubes in December 2013, but Hartung said that his team has managed to standardise the new "mini-brains" – meaning they can grow hundreds of uniform brain cultures in a single petri dish, rather than a few cultures each grown according to their distinct genetic codes.
So the future potential being glimpsed here is pretty exciting — albeit, theoretical and a long way out (plus, it should be stressed, the successful experiments were also conducted on rat brain cultures).
The investigators have also taken the process a step further, growing 3-D brain cultures on microfluidic chips dotted with electrical sensors.
