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THE increasing use of tissue culture techniques in neurobiological studies has created an urgent need for cell-type specific markers which would allow unambiguous identification of the different types of neural cells. We show here that galactocerebroside (GC), the major glycolipid in myelin1, can serve as such a cell-surface marker for cultured rat oligodendrocytes, the glial cells responsible for making myelin in the central nervous system.
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RAFF, M., MIRSKY, R., FIELDS, K. et al. Galactocerebroside is a specific cell-surface antigenic marker for oligodendrocytes in culture. Nature 274, 813–816 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274813a0
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