Astrocytes

Known as: Astroglias, Astrocyte, Astroglia

The largest and most numerous neuroglial cells in the brain and spinal cord. Astrocytes are irregularly shaped with many long processes, including…

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1996

Using an in vitro primary cell culture model in which cortical neurons undergo a gradual and delayed neuronal death after a brief…

1992

We have identified what is apparently a distinct type of astrocyte in primary cultures from several regions of the neonatal rat…

1986

In a previous investigation, we demonstrated altered patterns of growth, as indicated by RNA, DNA and protein contents, in…

1984

Summary: Freeze‐fracture techniques were used to examine the distribution of orthogonal arrays in the membranes of astroglia from…

1984

A technique is described using immunocytochemistry in which smears of fresh unfixed brain tissue combined with antibodies against…

1984

Nineteen hemangioblastomas, nine angioblastic meningiomas, ten metastases to the brain (including five renal cell carcinomas…

1980

Levels of astroprotein (an astrocyte-specific protein found in the cerebrum) were measured by radioimmunoassay in the…

1980

These experiments were performed in order to study the ventricular walls of the brain following more or less extensive lesioning…

Highly Cited

1979

Highly Cited

1979

A 16 mm length of cervical spinal cord of young adult female rats was irradiated with 4000 rad of 250 kV X rays. Counts of…

1971

The extracellular space in the developing rat cerebral cortex is quite large but varies considerably in extent depending on age…