title: Culturing astrocytes from postnatal rats.
abstract: The use of cultures has informed us of functions and regulation of astrocytes that were previously unknown. This chapter details the methods that result in such cultures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Yangyang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Cheryl F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Dreyfus
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D002469:Cell Separation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003470:Culture Media / Q000494:pharmacology; D004210:Dissection; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media