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Tenascin C induces a quiescent phenotype in cultured adult human astrocytes.
Glia - 1 Oct 2005
Holley Janet E, Gveric Djordje, Whatmore Jacqueline L, Gutowski Nicholas J
Abstract excerpt
Astrocytic scar formation occurs subsequent to brain and spinal cord injury and impedes repair. The exact mechanisms of scar formation have yet to be elucidated but it is known that astrocytes within the scar have a different antigenic phenotype from normal or reactive astrocytes. Astrocyte cell culture offers a suitable system to identify factors that induce the scar phenotype as well as factors that reverse...
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