Response: Clinical trials for the treatment of spinal cord injury: Cervical and lumbar enlargements versus thoracic area

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Mackay Sim, Alan ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LETTER; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 67650090550     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn283     Document Type: Letter

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