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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In histology, a bone-cell or bone-corpuscle: so called on account of its starlike form.

Wiktionary

  1. n. neurology a neuroglial cell, in the shape of a star, in the brain

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. comparatively large neuroglial cell

Examples

  • “Top, bar graph reporting the mean size of the labelled astrocyte syncytium (”

    PLoS Biology: New Articles

  • “(A) Maximal projection of a Texas Red-labelled astrocyte syncytium after patching a single astrocyte with a Texas Red-containing pipette in an EC slice.”

    PLoS Biology: New Articles

  • “The GRPs the scientists used began life as what's called astrocyte progenitor cells from healthy rat spinal cord tissue.”

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  • “The chemical message is passing from one astrocyte to the next.”

    NPR: Einstein's Brain Unlocks Some Mysteries Of The Mind

  • “Neoplasms of the brain that originate in a particular kind of glial-cells: the star-shaped brain cells called astrocyte.”

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Chaff - Greg Egan

  • “Lipids in the astrocyte cell walls and very tight junctions between adjacent endothelial cells limit the passage of water-soluble molecules.”

    Distribution of toxicants in the body

  • “Image: distinct astrocyte domains revealed in an image from the freely available selection in the Cell Centered Database.”

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  • “Accordingly, in pre-empting neuronal glucose utiliztion by the neuron, ketone bodies may compromise neuronal energetic efficiency and, together with both endogenously generated and diffusible ROS exported by the fatty acid-oxidizing astrocyte, promote cell injury.”

    Metabolism and ketosis | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.

  • “Sunnyvale-based Amarantus Therapeutics will use the funding to study the efficacy of mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor (MANF), a highly potent, neurotrophic factor currently in pre-clinical development for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.”

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  • “The calcium waves Silva and his team observed have not been reported in astrocyte networks in healthy”

    THE MEDICAL NEWS

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