astrocyte

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Miller RH, Noble M (1983) A glial progenitor cell that develops in vitro into an astrocyte or an oligodendrocyte depending on culture medium.

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  1. noun A star-shaped cell, especially a neuroglial cell of nervous tissue.

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  • Miller RH, Noble M (1983) A glial progenitor cell that develops in vitro into an astrocyte or an oligodendrocyte depending on culture medium. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Neuron-astrocyte interactions: partnership for normal function and disease in the central nervous system. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Disturbances of these neuron-astrocyte interactions are likely to play an important role in neurologic disorders including cerebral ischemia, neurodegeneration, migraine, cerebral edema, and hepatic encephalopathy. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Taguchi T, Tanaka H, Kataoka H, Li Z, et al. (2004) Neurospheres induced from bone marrow stromal cells are multipotent for differentiation into neuron, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte phenotypes. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Brenner M, Kisseberth WC, Su Y, Besnard F, Messing A (1994) GFAP promoter directs astrocyte-specific expression in transgenic mice. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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  1. Greek ἂστρον, star, + κύτος, a hollow (a cell).
 

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/ˈæstrəsaɪt/
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