Could cells from menstrual blood be a new source for cell-based therapies?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 252-254

  Zhang, Man Jing ^a   Liu, Bin ^b   Xia, Wei ^b   Sun, Zhi Yong ^c   Lu, Kai Hua ^b  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL POPULATION; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; ECTODERM; ENDODERM; ENDOMETRIUM; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; MESODERM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE REGENERATION;

BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION;

EID: 59249100167     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.10.021     Document Type: Article

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