Olfactory ensheathing cells — another miracle cure for spinal cord injury?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 369-375

  Raisman, Geoff ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; GLIA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE REGENERATION; OLFACTORY BULB; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; OLFACTORY BULB; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0035348490     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35072576     Document Type: Article

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