Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease with neural stem cells expressing choline acetyltransferase

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 627-629

  Guo, Yuan ^a   Lu, Nonghua ^a   Bai, Aiping ^a  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTEROID; MESALAZINE;

ARTICLE; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; NERVE CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGENERATION;

CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; NEURAL STEM CELLS;

EID: 84867331153     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.07.038     Document Type: Article

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