Primary Cultures of Astrocytes from Fetal Bovine Brain
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We describe here a method to obtain primary cell cultures from the cerebral cortex and the hypothalamus of bovine fetuses.
We report how tissue origin, developmental stages, and culture medium conditions influence cell differentiation and the prevalence
of glial cells vs. neurons. We compare explants from early, middle, and late stages of development and two different fetal
calf serum concentrations (1 and 10%) to identify the best conditions to obtain and grow viable astrocytes in culture. In
addition, we describe how to cryopreserve and obtain viable cortical astrocytes from frozen fetal bovine brain samples.
