1Mass General Cancer Center, Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Organotypic brain slices are three-dimensional, 150-μm-thick sections derived from postnatal day 10 mice that can be cultured for several weeks in vitro. However, these slices pose challenges for live ...

Gap junctions between neurons serve as electrical synapses, in addition to conducting metabolites and signaling molecules. During development, early-appearing gap junctions are thought to prefigure ...

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