Launching intravenous bone marrow cell trials for acute stroke

Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 639-641

  Savitz, Sean I ^a   Misra, Vivek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW CELL; CELL THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HAND FUNCTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PILOT PROJECTS; STROKE;

EID: 70350746660     PISSN: 17460751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/rme.09.41     Document Type: Editorial

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