Hyaluronic acid-based scaffold for central neural tissue engineering

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 278-291

  Wang, Xiumei ^a   He, Jin ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Cui, Fu Zhai ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Central neural tissue engineering; Hyaluronic acid; Regeneration; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860863436     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2012.0016     Document Type: Review

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