Human cell culture protocols / edited by Joanna Picot. -- 2nd ed. -- (Methods in molecular medicine ; v. 107). -- Humana Press, 2005. -- (59.41/H918/2nd ed.)

Contents:

1. Establishment and Maintenance of Normal Human Keratinocyte Culture  1

2. Cultivation of Normal Human Epidermal Melanocytes  in the Absence of Phorbol Esters  13

3. Isolation and Culture of Human Osteoblasts  29

4. Human Osteoclast Culture from Peripheral Blood Monocytes: Phenotypic characterization and Quantitation of Tesorption  55

5. Human Chondrocyte Cultures as Models of Cartilage-Specific Gene Regulation  69

6.  Human Myoblasts and Muscle-Derived SP Cells  97

7. Cell Cultures of Autopsy-Derived Fibroblasts  111

8. Primary Culture and Differentiation of Human Adipocyte Precursor Cells  125

9. Human Mononuclear Phagocytes in tissue Culture  137

10. Purification of Peripheral Blood natural Killer Cells  147

11. Human Fetal Brain Cell Culture  163

12. Culturing Human Schwann Cells  173

13. Well-differentiated Human Airway Epithelial Cell Cultures  183

14. Isolation and Culture of Human alveolar Epithelial Cells  207

15. A New Approach to Primary Culture of Human Gastric Epithelium  217

16. Isolation and culture of Human Colon Epithelial Cells Using a Modified Explant Technique Employing a Noninjurious Approach  237

17. Isolation and Culture of Human Hepatocytes  249

18. Glomerular Epithelial and Mesangial Cell culture and Characterization  269

19. Isolation and Culture of Human Renal cortical Cells with Characteristics of Proximal Tubules  283

20. Culture of Parathyroid Cells  291

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