Insulin influences astroglial morphology and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression in organotypic cultures.

doi:10.1016/0006-8993(91)90781-p

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Insulin influences astroglial morphology and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression in organotypic cultures.

Brain research - 6 Sept 1991

Toran-Allerand C D, Bentham W, Miranda R C, Anderson J P

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Variations in the levels and timing of exposure to insulin-related peptides influence the phenotypic appearance of astroglia present in organotypic cultures of the E17 mouse cerebellum as well as the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) mRNA and its encoded protein. The morphology...

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Animals
Astrocytes
Cell Differentiation
Cerebellum
Female
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
Insulin
Neurites
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Organ Culture Techniques
Phenotype
Pregnancy
RNA, Messenger
Rats

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