Astrocytes (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Astrocytes

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Named for their star shape, these astrocytes -- derived from human stem cells -- show their structural protein, GFAP, in red. DNA in the cell nucleus appears blue.

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Jeffrey Jones

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