Stem cell therapy in treatment of different diseases

Acta Medica Iranica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-96

  Larijani, Bagher ^a   Esfahani, Ensieh Nasli ^a   Amini, Peyvand ^a   Nikbin, Behrouz ^b   Alimoghaddam, Kamran ^c   Amiri, Somayeh ^a   Malekzadeh, Reza ^d   Yazdi, Nika Mojahed ^a   Ghodsi, Maryam ^a   Dowlati, Yahya ^e   Sahraian, Mohammad Ali ^f   Ghavamzadeh, Ardeshir ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Stem cells

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; THROMBIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC WOUND; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENTERITIS; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHOSPHATASIA; INTESTINE INJURY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIATION INDUCED INTESTINE INJURY; RADIATION INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STROKE; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIPOTENT STEM CELL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; PARKINSON DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84857476896     PISSN: 00446025     EISSN: 17359694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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