Prometheus's vulture and the stem-cell promise

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-274

  Rosenthal, Nadia ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONOGENESIS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM LAYER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TISSUE INJURY; WOUND HEALING; ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; HUMANS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0037664537     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra020849     Document Type: Review

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