The use of human umbilical cord blood for wound healing, burns, and brain injury in combat zones

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 361-363

  Reddi, Alluru S ^a   Ende, Norman ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BURN; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOLDIER; TRANSPLANTATION; WAR; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; BURNS; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; MICE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; WAR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79959807236     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00229     Document Type: Article

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