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A novel method for assessing sex-specific and genotype-specific response to injury in astrocyte culture.
Journal of neuroscience methods - 30 Jun 2008
Liu Mingyue, Oyarzabal Esteban A, Yang Rui, Murphy Stephanie J, Hurn Patricia D
Abstract excerpt
Female astrocytes sustain less cell death from oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) than male astrocytes. Arimidex, an aromatase inhibitor, abolishes these sex differences. To verify sex-dependent differences in P450 aromatase function in astrocyte cell death following OGD, we developed a novel metho...
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