UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION;THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SE CRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
An isolated, pure homogeneous population of mammalian astrocyte retrictedprecursor cells which is CD44 immunoreactive and which generate astrocytes butnot oligodendrocytes is provided. Methods for isolating and using thesemammalian astrocyte restricted precursor cells are also provided.