Successful myoblast transplantation in fibrotic muscles: No increased impairment by the connective tissue

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1618-1622

  Brussee, Valentine ^a   Tardif, François ^a   Roy, Brigitte ^a   Goulet, Marlyne ^a   Sebille, Alain ^b   Tremblay, Jacques P ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; NOTEXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FIBROSIS; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOFIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0033020005     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199906270-00018     Document Type: Article

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