Representations of Stem Cell Clinics on Twitter

Stem Cell Reviews and Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 753-760

  Kamenova, Kalina ^a   Reshef, Amir ^a   Caulfield, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Representation; Social media; Stem cell tourism; Stem cells; Twitter; Unproven stem cell treatments

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

HUMANS; SOCIAL MEDIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84936100200     PISSN: 26293269     EISSN: 26293277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12015-014-9534-z     Document Type: Review

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