Background
GFAP, a class-III intermediate filament, is a cell-specific marker that, during the development of the central nervous syst, distinguishes astrocytes from other glial cells.
Regerences
Lineage-specific biology revealed by a finished genome assembly of the mouse.Church D.M., Goodstadt L., Hillier L.W., Zody M.C., Goldstein S., She X., Bult C.J., Agarwala R., Cherry J.L., DiCuccio M., Hlavina W., Kapustin Y., Meric P., Maglott D., Birtle Z., Marques A.C., Graves T., Zhou S. , Teague B., Potamousis K., Churas C., Place M., Herschleb J., Runnheim R., Forrest D., Amos-Landgraf J., Schwartz D.C., Cheng Z., Lindblad-Toh K., Eichler E.E., Ponting C.P.PLoS Biol. 7:E1000112-E1000112(2009)