Therapeutic cloning: Status and prospects

Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 392-397

  Han, Zhiming ^a   VandeVoort, Catherine A ^b,c   Latham, Keith E ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Regenerative medicine; Somatic cell nuclear transfer; Stem cell; Therapeutic cloning

Indexed keywords

CELL CLONING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENGRAFTMENT; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART DISEASE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INJURY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 34547856985     PISSN: 14648431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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