Development of a method for the purification and culture of rodent astrocytes.

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Published in Neuron on September 08, 2011

Authors

Lynette C Foo1, Nicola J Allen, Eric A Bushong, P Britten Ventura, Won-Suk Chung, Lu Zhou, John D Cahoy, Richard Daneman, Hui Zong, Mark H Ellisman, Ben A Barres

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1: Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. lfoo@stanford.edu

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