Neuroscience Approached Through Cell Culture

Steven E. Pfeiffer, Ph.D., is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut.

1. Role of CNS Target Cues in Formation of Specific Afferent Synaptic Connections in Organotypic Cultures 2. Signals in Central Nervous System Development 3. Culture Strategies for Trophic and Other Factors Directed to Nerve Cells 4. Manipulation of the Development of Identified Neurons in Grasshopper Embryos Raised in Culture 5. The Mechanism of Action of Opiates and Other Neuroactive Agents 6. Antigenic Markers of Glia and Glial Subclasses 7. A Tissue Culture Strategy for Studying Mutant Mice with CNS Hypomyelination 8. Methodological Appendix: A Tissue Culture Strategy for Studying Mutant Mice with Defective CNS Myelination 9. Regulation of Early Myelinogenesis in Primary Cultures of Dissociated Rat Brain