What Matters in Cellular Transplantation for Spinal Cord Injury: The Cells, the Rehabilitation, or the Best Mix?

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-9

  Dobkin, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; DYSKINESIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NOTE; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; DYSKINESIAS; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; NEURONS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; ROBOTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649219182     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968309354457     Document Type: Article

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