Surgical extraction of human dorsal root ganglia from organ donors and preparation of primary sensory neuron cultures.

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Published in Nat Protoc on September 08, 2016

Authors

Manouela V Valtcheva1,2,3, Bryan A Copits1, Steve Davidson1,4, Tayler D Sheahan1,3, Melanie Y Pullen1,5, Jordan G McCall6,7,8,9, Krikor Dikranian10, Robert W Gereau11

Author Affiliations

1: Washington University Pain Center and Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
2: Medical Scientist Training Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
3: Neurosciences Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
4: Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
5: Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
6: Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Basic Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
7: Washington University Pain Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
8: Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
9: Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
10: Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
11: Washington University Pain Center, Department of Anesthesiology, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, and gereaur@wustl.edu.

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