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Culturing Embryonic Brain Tissue
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Embryonic brain tissue can be grown in culture to help scientists study how the nervous system develops. This approach lets researchers follow cell differentiation, cell migration, and changes in cell shape while the tissue stays in an organotypic state. Organotypic means the tissue is removed from the body, but its normal c...
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Explant cultures serve as a technique to investigate the development of specific cell populations and neural structures. In developmental neuroscience experiments, explants are neural tissues excised from an embryo for continued development in vitro. These cultures give researchers the ability to manipulate and visua...
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