Stem cell therapy in stroke treatment: Is it a viable option?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-121

  Mir, Osman ^a   Savitz, Sean I ^a  

^a UT Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Intra arterial stem cells; Intravenous stem cells; Stem cells; Stroke; Stroke therapy

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYELINATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLACENTA; PUBLIC HEALTH; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UMBILICAL CORD;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; STROKE;

EID: 84873155903     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.12.164     Document Type: Editorial

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