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Culturing neural explants from dissected Xenopus laevis embryos that express fluorescent fusion proteins allows for imaging of growth cone cytoskeletal dynamics.
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Lowery, L. A., Faris, A. E., Stout, A., Van Vactor, D. Neural Explant Cultures from Xenopus laevis. J. Vis. Exp. (68), e4232, doi:10.3791/4232 (2012).
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