Blueberries: The Elixer of healthy Aging;  An in vitro study of the neuroprotective properties of fruit polyphenolics
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Materials


Shy-Y Neuronal Cells.
10 X 12-well culture plates (Falcon)
Collagen substrate (Gibco Life Sciences)
Blueberry extract powder (YHC, Tokyo, Japan; Oxford Frozen Foods, NS, Canada)
Minimum Essential Media (MEM, Gibco),
Fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco), Horse serum (HS, Gibco).
1% penicillin/Streptomycin (P/S, Gibco)
7S Nerve Growth Factor (Sigma)
L-Glutamate (Sigma)
Hanks Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS, Gibco)
Zapoglobin cell lysing solution (in HBSS)
Viability Staining Kit (Becton Dickson Biosciences)
Sterile Pasteur pipettes, Pipettors (0.1-1 ml), sterile pipette tips, eppendorf tubes
Incubator
Nikon Eclipse Inverted Microscope equiped for epifluorescent
Hemocytometer chamber and coverslips
Bench microcentrifuge
Roche MTT Cell Proliferative Kit I




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