Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2...
by duaneb on Thursday August 09, 2012 @05:57PM
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I wonder what the functional difference is between rat brain cells and human brain cells.
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Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2...
by mercuryrising on Thursday August 09, 2012 @06:09PM
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The cells are essentially identical.
This is a fundamental question when doing rat studies, you would like the regions of the brain your are affecting in the rat to be similar to the regions you would find in a human brain.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/genetics/ne...