Ready for human spinal cord repair?

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2240-2242

  Dietz, Volker ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE 4 SULFATASE;

AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SAFETY; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 50849085771     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn185     Document Type: Note

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