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Incubation of vestibular ganglion cells from the rat fetus was successfully done demonstrating bipolar and multipolar cells in the cell cultures produced. Further, the presence of choline-acetyltransferase-positive cells was confirmed immunohistochemically.
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Yamashita, H., Sekitani, T. The demonstration of choline acetyltransferase activity in cultured vestibular ganglion cells from the fetal rat. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 247, 229–231 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00178991
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