The group of star-shaped glial cells in the brain and spinal cord(noun)
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Use "astroglia" in a sentence
"Garcia-Segura, LM, et al. Estradiol promotion of changes in the morphology of astroglia growing in culture depends depends on the expression of polysialic acid of neural membranes."
"Fernandez-Galaz, MC, et al. Role of astroglia and insulin like growth factor-I in gonadal hormone dependent synaptic plasticity."
"Del Cerro, S, et al. Neuroactive steroids regulate astroglia morphology in hyppocampal cultures from adult rat."