Can Applied Voltages Be Used to Produce Spinal Cord Regeneration and Recovery in Humans?

The Physiology of Bioelectricity in Development, Tissue Regeneration and Cancer

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 233-266

  Borgens, Richard Ben ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84861174325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b10799-16     Document Type: Chapter

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