Gary A. Banker coauthored work following the emergence of neuronal polarity in cultured hippocampal neurons. Sequential observations linked initially similar processes to distinct axon and dendrite outcomes. [ref]
The establishment of polarity by hippocampal neurons in culture by Carlos G. Dotti and others. 1988, byline and abstract: developmental observations and process identification
The culture model made cellular differentiation observable in the same cells through time, separating a developmental sequence from comparisons of unrelated endpoint images. New to topics? Read the docs here!