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n. - Tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells.

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  • The astroglia were also elevated in the 11 brains.
  • Another cell type, astroglia, helps pattern the brain in fetal development and is later involved in synaptic activity.
  • Genes with abundant Bergmann glial expression (at both P6 and P30) that were not previously known to be present in astroglia.
  • Its expression is strongly induced in early postnatal stages, and in the adult brain CDKL5 is present in mature neurons, but not in astroglia.
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