Leveraging Zebrafish To Study Bona Fide Astrocytes
Related Experiment Video
Updated: Nov 29, 2025
07:45
Author Spotlight: Using Zebrafish to Explore Microglia Migration During Brain Development
Published on: May 17, 2024
1.7K
Carmen Muñoz-Ballester1, Robyn A Umans1, Stefanie Robel2
1Center for Glial Biology in Health, Disease, and Cancer, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, VA 24016, USA.
Trends in Neurosciences
|November 20, 2020
Abstract:
In a recent study, Chen and colleagues demonstrated that zebrafish spinal cord radial glia differentiate into cells that are similar to mammalian astrocytes. This study highlights the validity of the zebrafish model for discovering molecular mechanisms governing astrocyte function.
