Extracellular Matrix

Immunohistochemical Characterization of Brain Neural and Vascular Basement Membranes.- The Use of Synaptic Basal Lamina and Its Components to Identify Sites of Recent Morphological Alterations at Mammalian Neuromuscular Junctions.- Perineuronal Nets: A Special Structure in the Central Nervous System Extracellular Matrix.- Isolation of Perinatal Mouse Cerebral Cortical Astrocytes.- Techniques for Examining the Effect of Substratum Bound Proteoglycans on Neurite Outgrowth In Vitro.- High-Throughput Quantitative Assay for Analyzing Neurite Outgrowth on a Uniform Substratum: The Cell-Substratum Assay.- Extracellular Matrix Components as a Substrate for Outgrowing Motoneurons.- Replicating the In Vivo Environment: Organotypic and Submerged Three-Dimensional Culture Methods.- Culturing Neurons, Glia, and Progenitor Cells in Three-Dimensional Hydrogels.- Investigating Cell-ECM Interactions and ECM Synthesis in Three-Dimensional Hydrogels.- Characterization and Analysis of Extracellular Matrix in Malignant Brain Tumors and Their Cellular Derivatives.- Chondroitinase Gene Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury.- Modulation of Neural Stem Cell Expressed Extracellular Matrix (ECM) by Targeting Glycosyltransferases.- Evaluating the Spatial and Temporal Protein Production in Neural Tissue Engineering Constructs In Vitro.- Cultivation and Imaging of Astrocytes on Protein-Coated Fluorescent Topographies Constructed from Aligned PLLA Electrospun Fibers.- Engineered Microdevices to Study and Manipulate Neural Stem Cell Chemotaxis.- Hydrolytically Degradable Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) Hydrogel: Synthesis, Gel Formation, and Characterization.