Are trials of intravascular infusions of autologous mesenchymal stem cells in patients with multiple system atrophy currently justified, and are they effective?

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 663-665

  Quinn, N ^a   Barker, R A ^b   Wenning, G K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; STROKE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY;

EID: 42349114021     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100454     Document Type: Note

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