Neuronal Networks Grown in Dish Reveal Neuron Protector (IMAGE)

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Neuronal Networks Grown in Dish Reveal Neuron Protector

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Cultures of neural precursors differentiating into excitatory and inhibitory neurons after retinoic acid exposure from days 24 to 30. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 6, 2016 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.-C. Xu at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., and colleagues was titled, "Cultured networks of excitatory projection neurons and inhibitory interneurons for studying human cortical neurotoxicity."

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J.-C. Xu et al., <i>Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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