Neural stem cell therapy for neurological diseases: Dreams and reality

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 401-409

  Rossi, Ferdinando ^a   Cattaneo, Elena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURONS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0036581270     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn809     Document Type: Article

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