hippocampal slice culture

[Richard Vickery]

Clemens.Sabelhaus at ifn-magdeburg.de says...

>I would like to culture hippocampal slices from adult rats.
>To my knowledge, nobody succeeded in doing this so far.

They are usually called organotypic cultures and seem to preserve 
hippocampal structure though the slice slowly forms a monolayer.  Look for 
papers by B. H. Gahwiler (umlaut on a) - eg a 1993 PNAS one.  Good luck - I 
think it is not that easy!

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