Introduction: The human brain is composed of a complex network of cells that interact with each other through direct and indirect pathways. Studies about culture of human brain cells have been limited to postmortem experiments and only more recently have been obtained from living patients. These harvests of human nerve tissue samples occurred only during neurosurgeries for control of refractory epilepsy and resection of brain
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