title: Failure of plasma membranes of astrocytes in primary culture to insert exogenous ganglioside GM1.
abstract: Primary cultures of astrocytes derived from newborn rat brain cerebral hemispheres did not incorporate ganglioside GM1 into their plasma membranes when cultured in a medium containing the added ganglioside. This finding suggests that the function and/or structure of the astrocyte cell membrane differs from that of the neuron and oligodendroglia cell.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D001921:Brain; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005677:G(M1) Ganglioside / Q000378:metabolism*; D005732:Gangliosides / Q000378:metabolism*; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D005732:Gangliosides; D005677:G(M1) Ganglioside