Skin-derived precursors are a suitable alternative to peripheral nerve as a source of Schwann cells for transplantation-based repair of the injured rat spinal cord
For much of human history the devastating loss of neurological functions that occurs after spinal cord injury (SCI) was thought to be irreversible, so the people afflicted with such injuries were offered no hope of effective medical treatment. Today that has changed, as advances in neurobiology and...
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University of British Columbia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46006 |