Characteristics of human fetal spinal cord grafts in the adult rat spinal cord: Influences of lesion and grafting conditions

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 523-543

  Giovanini, Mark A ^b   Reier, Paul J ^a   Eskin, Thomas A ^b   Wirth, Edward ^a   Anderson, Douglas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FETUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 0031431562     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6703     Document Type: Article

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