Frontiers Of Spinal Cord And Spine Repair: Experimental Approaches for Repair of Spinal Cord Injury

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 760, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-15

  Yoon, Choya ^a   Tuszynski, Mark H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal Growth; Axonal Regeneration; Dorsal Root Ganglion; Spinal Cord; Spinal Cord Injury

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; HYALURONIC ACID; MYELIN; MYELIN ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; OLIGODENDROCYTE MYELIN GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN NOGO A; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; TENASCIN;

CELL DEATH; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINE SURGERY; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD;

HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84872790998     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4090-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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