The road to providing human embryo stem cells for therapeutic use: The UK experience

Reproduction

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 681-689

  De Sousa, Paul A ^a   Galea, George ^b   Turner, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INFORMED CONSENT; INJURY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; STANDARD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STORAGE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CELL SEPARATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; EUROPEAN UNION; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; RESEARCH; STEM CELLS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33751240083     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.01080     Document Type: Review

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