Recent applications of regenerative medicine to urologic structures and related tissues

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 305-309

  Atala, Anthony ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder; Genital; Kidney; Reconstruction; Regenerative medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; POLITEF;

BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOENGINEERING; BIOPSY; BLADDER DISEASE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INJECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; URETER DISEASE; URETHRA; URETHRA DISEASE; UROLOGY; UTERUS MALFORMATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UROLOGIC DISEASES; UROLOGY;

EID: 33745192067     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mou.0000232055.20084.f6     Document Type: Review

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